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By : Tanzeem Shaikh Posted on : 07 Oct, 2006
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1. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world? 2. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. 3. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet. 4. Banging your head against a wall uses an average of 900 calories an hour.
5. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death. 6. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE. 7. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 8. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA. 9. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 10. Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. 11. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. 12. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day. 13. Every time you lick a stamp,you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie. 14. Cat's urine glows under a black light. 15. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. 16. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. 17. Babies are born without knee caps.They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. 18. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. 19. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 20. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. 21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. 22. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30's lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition. 23. You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider. 24. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
25. There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US. 26. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." 27. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. 28. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. 29. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,dogs only have about ten. 30. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
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Invention Of Ice Cream
By : Sumona Das Posted on : 04 May, 2006
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Did anyone invent ice cream? Clearly it was not one person who created this gift to humanity, for surely he or she would have already been awarded the Nobel Prize. Short of world peace and cures for terrible diseases, what better mark of progress and civilization could there be than the advent of ice cream in general and, if I may say so, chocolate ice cream in particular? Ice cream debuted in China 4000 years ago among the nobility in the form of a milk and rice concoction packed in snow. Fruit ices and a form of sherbet followed. In the Middle Ages travelers brought these treats back to Italy, where it was still a dessert reserved for the upper crust. Improved cheaper refrigeration techniques in the 16th century brought ice cream to the masses, probably the most important dot on the timeline of history until the discovery of antibiotics 400 years later.
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Did you ever wonder where some of the old hackneyed came from? Here are some facts about Europe in the 1500s: Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they were starting to smell so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today of carrying a
bouquet when getting married. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children-last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people. So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they thought they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer." And that's the truth... Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination would sometimes knock them out for a couple of days. Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up. Hence the custom of holding a "wake." Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the dogs, cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Hence, the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house, which posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could really mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying "dirt poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing. As the winter wore on, they kept adding more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying a "thresh hold." In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving
leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes the stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old." Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man "could bring home the bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat." Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous. Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."
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Did you know that.... 1. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. 2. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 160 km/hr. 3. Pepsi originally contained pepsin, thus the name. 4. The original story from "Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights" begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy." 5. The most common name in the world is Mohammed. 6. Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. 7. The volume of the earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean. 8. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously. 9. Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. 10. What about milk you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
11. Cephalacaudal recapitulation is the reason our extremities develop faster than the rest of us. 12. Licking Tongue - Stephen Taylor of Coventry, England, has a tongue that measures 3.7 inches in length, the world's tongue longest! 13. Wheels - The Sumerians of the ancient world used wagons 5000 years before our time. The wagons had solid wooden wheels, leather tires, and were often pulled by wild asses. Things have really changed, haven't they? We use metal wheels and rubber tires today. And the creatures that used to pull the load are sometimes even found in the driver's seat.
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By : Sarabjit Singh Posted on : 01 May, 2006
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TECHNOLOGY AIRCRAFT CARRIER An aircraft carrier gets about 6 inches per gallon of fuel. AIRPLANES * The first United States coast to coast airplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days. * A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight (120ft). ALUMINUM The Chinese were using aluminum to make things as early as 300 AD Western civilization didn't rediscover aluminum until 1827. AUTOMOBILE George Seldon received a patent in 1895 - for the automobile. Four years later, George sold the rights for $200,000. COIN OPERATED MACHINE The first coin operated machine ever designed was a holy-water dispenser that required a five-drachma piece to operate. It was the brainchild of the Greek scientist Hero in the first century AD. COMPACT DISCS Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works. COMPUTERS * ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was
about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster. * From the smallest microprocessor to the biggest mainframe, the average American depends on over 264 computers per day. * The first "modern" computer (i.e., general-purpose and program-controlled) was built in 1941 by Konrad Zuse. Since there was a war going on, he applied to the German government for funding to build his machines for military use, but was turned down because the Germans did not expect the war to last beyond Christmas. * The computer was launched in 1943, more than 100 years after Charles Babbage designed the first programmable device. Babbage dropped his idea after he couldn't raise capital for it. In 1998, the Science Museum in London, UK, built a working replica of the Babbage machine, using the materials and work methods available at Babbage's time. It worked just as Babbage had intended. ELECTRIC CHAIR The electric chair was invented by a dentist, Alfred Southwick. E-MAIL The first e-mail was sent over the Internet in 1972. EYE GLASSES The Chinese invented eyeglasses. Marco Polo reported seeing many pairs worn by the Chinese as early as 1275, 500 years before lens grinding became an art in the West. GLASS If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass. HARD HATS Construction workers hard hats were first invented and used in the building of the Hoover Dam in 1933. HOOVER DAM The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years. LIMELIGHT Limelight was how we lit the stage before electricity was invented. Basically, illumination was produced by heating blocks of lime until they glowed. MOBILE (CELLULAR) PHONES As much as 80% of microwaves from mobile phones are absorbed by your head. NUCLEAR POWER Nuclear ships are basically steamships and driven by steam turbines. The reactor just
develops heat to boil the water. OIL The amount of oil that is used worldwide in one year is doubling every ten years. If that rate of increase continues and if the world were nothing but oil, all the oil would be used up in 400 years. RADIO WAVES Radio waves travel so much faster than sound waves that a broadcast voice can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated. RICKSHAW The rickshaw was invented by the Reverend Jonathan Scobie, an American Baptist minister living in Yokohama, Japan, built the first model in 1869 in order to transport his invalid wife. Today it remains a common mode of transportation in the Orient. SHIPS AND BOATS * The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns. * The world's oldest surviving boat is a simple 10 feet long dugout dated to 7400 BC. It was discovered in Pesse Holland in the Netherlands. * Rock drawings from the Red Sea site of Wadi Hammamat, dated to around 4000 BC show that Egyptian boats were made from papyrus and reeds. * The world's earliest known plank-built ship, made from cedar and sycamore wood and dated to 2600 BC, was discovered next to the Great Pyramid in 1952. * The Egyptians created the first organized navy in 2300 BC. * Oar-powered ships were developed by the Sumerians in 3500 BC. * Sails were first used by the Phoenicians around 2000 BC. SILICON CHIP A chip of silicon a quarter-inch square has the capacity of the original 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block. SKYSCRAPER The term skyscraper was first used way back in 1888 to describe an 11-story building. SOUND Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air. TELEPHONES There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call. TELEVISION Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926 in Soho, London. Ten years later there were only 100 TV sets in the world.
TRAFFIC LIGHTS Traffic lights were used before the advent of the motorcar. In 1868, a lantern with red and green signals was used at a London intersection to control the flow of horse buggies and pedestrians. TRANSISTORS More than a billion transistors are manufactured... every second. VCR's The first VCR, made in 1956, was the size of a piano. WINDMILL The windmill originated in Iran in AD 644. It was used to grind grain. WORLD TRADE CENTER The World Trade Center towers were designed to collapse in a pancake-like fashion, instead of simply falling over on their sides. This design feature saved hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives on Sept. 11, 2001, when they were destroyed by terrorists
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By : Sumona Das Posted on : 25 Mar, 2006
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Hey! I found an amazing human body facts and want to share with you dear readers. Please read this carefully. The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour. The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple. The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself. It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech. The average life of a taste bud is 10 days. The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.
Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age. Children grow faster in the springtime. It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum). If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth. The average human head weighs about 8 pounds. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator. An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs. The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails. The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year. The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m). Your skull is made up of 29 different bones. Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.
After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death. Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails. The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m). A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used. The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m). 15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second. The pancreas produces Insulin. The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine. The human body is comprised of 80% water. The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime. Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced. The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m). You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell. There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being. The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood. Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels. During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times. Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body
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By : deepak verma Posted on : 29 Sep, 2005
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In the Solomon Islands in the south Pacific some villagers practice a unique form of logging. If a tree is too large to be felled with an axe, the natives cut it down by yelling at it. (Can't lay my hands on the article, but I swear I read it.) Woodsmen with special powers creep up on a tree just at dawn and suddenly scream at it at the top
of their lungs. They continue this for thirty days. The tree dies and falls over. The theory is that the hollering kills the spirit of the tree. According to the villagers, it always works. Ah, those poor nave innocents. Such quaintly charming habits of the jungle. Screaming at trees, indeed. How primitive. Too bad thay don't have the advantages of modern technology and the scientific mind. Me? I yell at my wife. And yell at the telephone and the lawn mower. And yell at the TV and the newspaper and my children. I've been known to shake my fist and yell at the sky at times. Man next door yells at his car a lot. And this summer I heard him yell at a stepladder for most of an afternoon. We modern, urban, educated folks yell at traffic and umpires and bills and banks and machines--especially machines. Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. Don't know what good it does. Machines and things just sit there. Even kicking doesn't always help. As for people, well, the Solomon Islanders may have a point. Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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By : Sumona Das Posted on : 11 Feb, 2006
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We almost heard that ancient ends antiquity bestow us various wonders which are excessive lucrative and auxiliary for life. Here are few marvelous miracle which show the yielding power of nature. Basically, we have heard about the Bermuda Triangle but the scientist are unable to find out the hiding enchantments moving forces of the triangle. Now, I am going to tell you few exciting wonders similar to that miracle of sea. In 1930, the Niviarsiaq region of America originates an immense lake. Where the water is too icy cold and the taste as sweet as honey. Here, the peoples try to drink more than glass of water but they cant. Presently the scientists have failed to discover the hideous mystery of this lake. Then in the intermediate edge of Chile country and Argentina where large stream of water flows, named Rio Grande. Here the taste of the water is too quainter sour. Even the taste of the lemon is too low pungent than this river. For the enjoyments, most of the tourist, scientist and the citizens of this country uses salt and sugar in the river water and make an equivalent drink for their satisfaction. What a great miracle! Without paying pelf the people get and make excellent punch for their pleasure. On the other side named Agareneiaki situated in East Africa. Where the taste of the river water is as exotic as beer. Usually, the people are accustomed to take advantage and use the water for their drink purposes, because, its taste like beer. And the strange thing is that Agareneiaki is found to be zero percent of alcohol. Not harmful for health. Then in the 19th century, scientists discovered a lake in the country of Algeria where
the water of the river basically is used for the ink purposes. In this river, the water is as dark as blacken blue. And the scientists found the exact reason for this blacken fluid. They said in this region, due to the excess of iron and lead oxide in the river water can make quite excellent chemical for ink purpose. With lot a heard about this marvelous lake. Now, the next miracle is, in the island of Belgian situated a lake let named Hornoye. Here, the amazing ground is that, the lake hates male to bath there and thats why its passing currents when, if any of males get ready to bath there. On the other side, if females supposed to bath in the lake then it produces an insane magic where the inner core of the female create a sensational power. Then the next astounding miracle is in the Ireland where we found an amazing river. Here, if any of items dropped into the river it becomes as hard as stone. Presently the scientist are unable to find out the exact reason for that. Lastly, we heard that humans are versatile and change their color frequently. But heres the awesome river which was not found earlier in the Australia. Here the water change it's color with the monsoon arising. Wow! Simply great, cant imagine na.... See in the month of November and December the color of the river becomes dark blue. Then in the month of June it becomes green and in the August and September it becomes as white as milk. But the colors never ever affected negatively in the base of the river.
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By : Sameena Arif Posted on : 18 Jan, 2006
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SMART FACTS.... 1. Compared to fersh berries,frozen berries still contain 70% of their original vitamin C and 100% of their protective antioxidant supernutrients... 2.Avoid getting too cold as it puts stress on the body and raises blood glucose levels.A hot bath or shower will increase the blood flow and lower blood glucose... 3.Psycologists have proved that brightly coloured fruits sends energy boosting message to the brain.if you are suffering from a wave of lethargy make a fruit salad with red apples,strawberries and raspberries for stimulating snack... 4.If you want to eat less,chew slowly and put down your knife and fork between mouthfuls.it may be old fashioned advice ,but it works... 5.Drinking 5 cups of green tea a day has been shown to raise ur metabolism and may help to burn off an extra 100 calories a day. green tea is rich in antioxidants and can help the body to detox...
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By : Sameena Arif Posted on : 06 Jan, 2006
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FABULOUS & ASTONISHING FACTS OF NATURE & CREATION ASTONISHING FACTS : 1) LONGEST ENGLISH WORD: Praetertranssubstantiationalistically --> has 37 letters. 2) BOOK WITHOUT LETTER 'e': GADFY,written by Earnest Wright in 1939 is a 50,000+ word book, which doesn't contain a single word with ' e ' in it 3) WORD WITHOUT VOWEL: RHYTHM 4) BRAIN: Organ of body which has no sensation when cut . 5) CROCODILE: Only animal & reptile which sheds tear while eating . 6) No of Alphabets, which SOUND AS WORDS: 10, They are B Bee C Sea z Zee I Eye Q Queue R Are S Yes T Tea U You Y Why FASCINATING ANIMALS, BIRDS, TREES : 1) SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue. 2) A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes. 3) DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open. 4) A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tonnes of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months. 5) The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species. 6) The fiercest DINOSAUR was TRYNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs. 7) DIMETRODON was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal. 8) CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.
9) The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body. 10) OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food. 11) POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed. 12) KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell. 13) ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds. 14) OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees. WHAT ARE THEY : 1) If we say 'MUMMY', they come together & go apart when we say 'DADDY': LIPS 2) What goes up & never comes down:AGE 3) Patches over patches but no stitches:CABBAGE 4) What is that we cannot see, but is always before you: FUTURE 5) What goes up & down a hill, but never moves:ROAD 6) You can never wet it:SHADOW 7) What belongs to to You, but used by your friends more often you do:YOUR NAME. IN 24 HOURS AVERAGE HUMAN: 1) HEART beats 1,03,689 times. 2) LUNGS respire 23,045 times. 3) BLOOD flows 16,80,000 miles. 4) NAILS grow 0.00007 inches 5) HAIR grows 0.01715 inches 6) Take 2.9 pounds WATER (including all liquids) 7) Take of 3.25 pounds FOOD 8) Breathe 438 cubic feet AIR. 9) Lose 85.60, BODY TEMPERATURE. 10) Produce 1.43 pints SWEAT. 11) Speak 4,800 WORDS. 12) During SLEEP move 25.4 times
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INTERESTING FACTS A dragonfly has a lifespan of only 24 hours A goldfish has a memory span of 3 seconds The shortest war was between Britain and Zanzibar.It lasted for 37 minutes. Humming birds are the only ones,which can fly backwards The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent" A snail can sleep for 3 years
The name of the continents all end with same letter with which they start (see ASIA,AUSTRALIA,AFRICA...) No word in English language rhymes with month,orange,silver or purple.(try your level best
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During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants! Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food! Dolphins sleep with one eye open! The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old! In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces! There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S, than real ones! About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30! More people use blue toothbrushes, than red ones! A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.! Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe! In the White House, there are 13,092 knives, forks and spoons! Slugs have 4 noses! Recycling one glass jar, saves enough energy to watch T.V for 3 hours! Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet! Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue! The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year! It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland! There wasn't a single pony in the Pony Express, just horses!
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The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The military salute originated during the medieval times. Knights in armor used to raise their visors to reveal their identity, and the motion later evolved into the modern-day salute. The Mills Brothers have recorded the most songs of any artist: about 2,250. The minarets ofthe Taj Mahal in India are angled at 88 degrees outwards so that they would not collapse into the structure should an earthquake occur The minimum number of darts that need to be thrown to complete a single in, double out game of 501 is nine. The Miss America Contest was created in Atlantic City in 1921 with the purpose of extending the tourist season beyond Labor Day. The model of King Kong used in the original movie was only 18 inches tall. The modern Olympic Games were held in the first time in 1896 at Athens and were then followed by the 1900 Paris games. The winter games were added in 1924. The mola mola or ocean sunfish lays up to 5,000,000 eggs at one time. The Mona Lisa, by daVinci, is 2'6" by 1'9". The Mona-Lisa, now hanging in the Louvre museum in Paris, is valued today at $100,000,000. The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline. The Montreal Canadians of the mid-1950s are the only team to win five straight Stanley Cup championships. The Monty Python movie "The Life of Brian" was banned in Scotland. The moon actually has mirrors on it. They were left there by astronauts who wanted to bounce laser beams off them, so that the distance to the moon can be measured.
The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum. The most collect calls are made on father's day. The most common blood type in the world is Type O. The rarest, Type A-H, has been found in less than a dozen people since the type was discovered. The most common disease in the world is tooth - decay. The most common injury in bowling is a sore thumb. The most common street name in the United States is Second Street. First Street isnt first because many times the designation is replaced with the name Main Street. The most expensive book or manuscript ever sold at an auction was The Codex Hammer, a notebook belonging to Leonardo da Vinci. It sold for $30.8 million. The most expensive movie memorabilia ever sold at an auction was Clark Gables Academy Award for It Happened One Night. It sold for $607,500 on December 15, 1996. The most expensive painting ever sold at auction was Portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh. On May 15, 1990, Ryoei Saito paid $75 million for it. He followed up that spending spree by paying the second-highest price ever, $71 million for Au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre Auguste Renoir, just two days later. The most frequently seen birds at feeders across North America last winter were the Dark-eyed Junco, House Finch and American goldfinch, along with downy woodpeckers, blue jays, mourning doves, black-capped chickadees, house sparrows, northern cardinals and european starlings. The most searched thing on yahoo.com every year is porn. The most snow accumulation in a one-day period was 75.8 inches at Silver Lake, Colorado, in April 1921. The most used line in the movies is "Lets get out of here." The most widely accepted legend associated to the discovery of coffee is of the goatherder named Kaldi of Ethiopia. Around the year 800-850 A.D., Kaldi was amazed as he noticed his goats behaving in a frisky manner after eating the leaves and berries of a coffee shrub. And, of course, he had to try them! The most widely culticated fruit in the world is the Apple.The second is the Pear.
The motto for the Olympic Games is Citius Altius Fortius. Translated, it means Faster Higher Stronger. The mouse is the most common mammal in the US. The movie As Good As It Gets is called Mr. Cat Poop in China. The movie Quo Vadis had 30,000 extras. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City hung Matisse's 'Le Bateau' upside-down for 47 days before an art student noticed the error. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. The nail of our middle finger grows the fastest and the nail of our thumb grows slowest. The name "Uncle Sam" for the U.S. came from a person known as Uncle Sam Wilson of Troy, NY, who supplied food for the U.S. army in the war of 1812. The name Coca-Cola in China was first rendered as 'Ke-kou-ke-la.' Unfortunately, the Company did not discover until after thousands of signs had been printed that the phrase means 'bite the wax tadpole' or 'female horse stuffed with wax' depending on the dialect. Coke then researched Chinese characters and found a close phonetic equivalent, 'ko-kou-ko-le,' which can be loosely translated as 'happiness in the mouth.' The name for Oz in the Wizard of Oz was thought up when the creator Frank Baum looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N and O-Z. The name for the middle part of the nose (the part that separates the nostrils) is called a chaffanue The name 'Intel' stems from the company's former name, 'Integrated Electronics'. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. The name of the dog from "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" is Max. The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo. The name of the first airplane flown at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers, on December 17, 1903, was Bird of Prey. The name of the Russian space station, Mir, means "peace."
The name Santa Claus is a corruption of the Dutch dialect name for Saint Nicholas Sint Klass. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before. The name Wendy was made up for the book 'Peter Pan'. It came from the author's friends, whom he called his "fwendy" (friend) The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it. The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres. The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. The national dish of Scotland, haggis, is made of the heart, liver, lungs and small intestines of a calf. It's then boiled in the stomach of the animal, and seasoned with salt, pepper and onions. Oh, and don't forget to add the suet and oatmeal. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in 1978 that it would alternate men's and women's names in the naming of hurricanes. It was seen as an attempt at fair play. Hurricanes had been named for women for years, until NOAA succumbed to pressure from women's groups who were demanding that Atlantic storms be given unisex names. The national sport of Nauru, a small Pacific island, is lassoing flying birds. The Navy SEALs were formed in 1962. The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is. The nearest relative of the hippopotamus is the common pig. The Netherlands is the lowest country in the world. An estimated 40% of its land is below sea level. The New York City Chamber of Commerce is the oldest chamber of commerce in the United States. King George III granted a royal charter for it in 1770. The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II .. and none after. The New York Yankees have won the most champoinships (26 times) in their respected sport (MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL) for any professional sports team.
The Nile catfish swim upside down. The number 111,111,111 multiplied by itself will result in the number 12,345,678,987,654,321. The number 2,520 can be divided by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 without having a fractional leftover. The number 37 will wholly divide (no decimals) into 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999. The number of atoms in a pound of iron is nearly five trillion trillion: 4,891,500,000,000,000,000,000,000. The number of cricket chirps you count in a fifteen-second span, plus 37, will tell you the approximate current air temperature. The number of possible ways of playing just the first four moves on each side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000. The number of times a drowning person will rise to the surface depends on how much air is in his lungs. He could rise once, twice, or five times. Or not at all. Obese people will stay afloat longer than skinny people because fat contains air molecules. The number of triplets born in the US in 1994 (4,594) was more than triple the number born in 1971 (1,034), an increase attributed to older age of the mothers and the use of fertility-enhancing drugs and techniques. The number of VCRs in the United States grew from 52,565,000 in 1987 to 86,825,000 in 1997, a 39.5% increase. The numbers "172" can be found on the back of a US $5 bill, in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln memorial. The numbers 111 222 333 444 555 666 777 888 999 are all multiples of 37. The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to seven. The nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosy is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."), People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!")
The Oblivion ride at Alton Towers has a G-force of 5. Thats higher than the G-force of an average NASA take-off! The occupations of the three men in a tub were butcher, baker, and candlestick maker. The odds against a royal flush in poker are exactly 649,739 to 1. The odds of being born male are about 51.2%, according to census. The official definition of a desert is any land that where more water evaporates than is acquired through precipitation. The official name of the St. Louis Gateway Arch is "The Jefferson National Expansion Monument." The Gateway Arch looks taller than it is wider, but it is exactly 630 feet by 630 feet. The official sport for the State of Maryland is jousting. The official state song of Georgia since 1922 has been "Georgia on My Mind". The Ohio river forms at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela. The oiuja board was invented by Isaac and William Fuld, and was patented July 1, 1892. The oldest "cricket" match was played between the USA and Canada in 1844. The oldest continuous comic strip still in existence is The Katzenjammer Kids. It first appeared in newspapers in 1897. The oldest exposed surface on earth is New Zealand's south island. The oldest goldfish lived for 14,795 days. 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 oldest man-made building of any kind still existing is the central edifice of the 4,600-year-old mastaba (a tomb for kings) built at Sakkara, Egypt. It was created to honor King Zoser, the first ruler of the Third Dynasty. The oldest musical instrument is probably the flute. It's been discovered that primitive cave dwellers made an instrument from bamboo or some other small hollow wood.
The oldest person to live was Jeanne Louise Calment, she lived for a whopping 122 years until she died of smoking related complications. Don't Smoke! The oldest recorded document on paper made from fibrous material was a deed of King Roger of Sicily, in the year 1102. The oldest tennis court in the world is the one built at Hampton Court in 1530 for Henry VIII. The oldest works of art are pictures of animals found in caves in Spain and France. They have been dates as far back as 18,000 years ago. The olive branch in the eagle's right talon has 13 leaves. The Olympic Games were held in St. Louis, MO. In 1904, the first time that the games were held in the United States. The Olympic was the sister ship of the Titanic, and she provided twenty-five years of service. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"! The only animals that can naturally sleep on their backs are humans. No other animal actually does--apes usually sleep sitting up and leaning on something. The only big cat that doesn't roar is a Jaguar The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird. The only bird that cannot fly is the penguin 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. The only bone not broken so far during any ski accident is one located in the inner ear. The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica. The only countries in the world with one syllable in their names are Chad, France, Greece, and Spain. The only difference between brown eyes and every other colored eyes is that brown eyes have more pigment.
The only dog to ever appear in a Shakespearean play was Crab in The Two Gentlemen of Verona The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. The only father and son to hit back-to-back home runs in a major league baseball game: Ken Griffey, Jr., and his father, Ken Griffey, Sr., both of the Seattle Mariners in a game against the California Angels on September 14th, 1990. The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers. The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat The only loss Packers' coach Vince Lombardi ever suffered in the postseason was to the Philadelphia Eagles, 17-13, in the 1960 NFL championship game. The only member of the British House of Commons who is not allowed to speak is the man called the Speaker of the House. The only MLB team to have both its city's name and its team name in a foreign language is the San Diego Padres. The only mobile national monuments in the United States are the cable cars in San Francisco. The only one of his sculptures that Michelangelo signed was the "The Pieta," completed in 1500. The only painting by Leonardo da Vinci on permanent display in the United States hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. It's a portrait of Ginevra di Benci, the wife of a politician in Florence. The only president buried in Washington, D.C. proper: Woodrow Wilson, who was laid to rest in the National Cathedral. The only president buried on the grounds of a state capitol: James Polk in Nashville, Tenn. The only President in office to weigh less than 100 pounds was James Madison. The only President to be head of a labor union was Ronald Reagan. The only presidents buried together: John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams are in a basement crypt in Quincy, Mass.
The only real person to be a PEZ head was Betsy Ross. The only repealed amendment to the US Constitution deals with the prohibition of alcohol. The only rock that floats in water is pumice. The only state allowed to fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag is Texas. The only three non-Presidents pictured on U.S. paper money are: Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill, Benjamin Franklin on the $100 bill, and Salmon Chase on the $10,000 bill. The only time the human population declined was in the years following 1347, the start of the epidemic of the plague 'Black Death' in Europe.
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By : Richa Posted on : 21 Nov, 2005
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1. No Breakfast People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing braindegeneration. 2. Overeating It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power. 3. Smoking It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease. 4. High Sugar consumption Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development. 5. Air Pollution The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
6. Sleep Deprivation Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells. 7. Head covered while sleeping Sleeping with the head covered, increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects. 8. Working your brain during illness. Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain. 9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage. 10. Talking Rarely Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain.

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