Facts.....Did you know?

fact about lies

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:19:00 +0000

And what do you know about the lies?

- 81% of people said "harmless lie" every day

- Most people lie 3 times in 10 minutes of conversation

- Following a review of 142 studies, during which 19,801 people (many of whom had experience lies in the recognition of his work) was assessed, lying or not 2,945 people, lies gently was recognized only 54% of cases, only slightly more than 50% that you can dial simply by guessing "yes-no

- 2% of people think that lying is sometimes necessary

- 65% of people think that often / sometimes OK to lie to not hurt someone's feelings

- 44% of people think that often / sometimes possible to exaggerate the events in the story to make it interesting

- 37% of people think that often / sometimes you can lie about his age

- Depressive people are more honest with themselves than the mentally healthy, and when they recover, they become less fair

- 98% of teens say they lie to their parents

- 98% of teens say that trust is very important in personal relationships. 96-98% say that lying is immoral

- 47% of teens say that illegal downloading of music is acceptable, and only 5% considered acceptable stealing from shop

- During the experiment, 32 young people were divided into 2 groups - high and low social status, based on their activity, reported by the parents. Children of high social level lie better. Teens lie better than younger

- 75% of students admit that they become "serial liars * when it comes to saving money or a job

- 40% of parents believe that is normal sometimes lie to children about their own bad behavior in the past

- 68% of women lie about their weight, when the rent on the right

- 91% of women say that the older they become, the easier take themselves, and the lower lying

- 44% of people easier to lie by e-mail, than in manuscript form. During the study, 48 students had to divide $ 89 between themselves and another fictional one group that did not know about the amount of money, but I knew that it varies between $ 5-100 and should decide to accept the proposal or not. When students reported the amount of e-mail, 92% lied when handwritten - 64%

- 15% of employees were caught in a lie directly in the workplace

- 16% of people ever lied to justify "I call on another line" or "I call you back"

- According to the experiment conducted in Australia, 73% of doctors said that washed his hands, and only 9% actually did so;

- 29% of people who are in close relations, acknowledged that lie to their partners about their spending money

- 33% of women lie about their spending money, as well as 26% of men

- 1 out of 10 people had lied during the motor to reduce the contribution

- 15% of people vozrata 18-20 years admit they were wrong to their partners, 11% aged 21-24 years are recognized in the same

- 22% of men say they do not want to call their number of sexual partners

- 17% of men and women aged 18-24 years reported to their sexual partner about the presence of host of sexually transmitted diseases

- 61% of women think that is normal if a man is lying about their appearance

- 26% of men and 9% of women believe adultery to be justified, if their partner is no longer interested in sex

- Betrayal in varying degrees, is the cause of 54% of divorces

- 48% of women say that is normal, when their partner is lying about his attraction to other women

- 39% of women say that is normal when a man is lying about the woman that if she was good in bed

Did you know???

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:04:00 +0000

Did you know ?
Blood cells:Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
Einstein:Einstein declined the presidency of the state of Israel when it was offered to him in 1952 by state leaders. The element einsteinium, discovered in 1952, was named in honor of Albert Einstein. Picture of Einstein sticking his tongue was taken on his 72nd birthday by annoying press photographer Arthur Sasse. Albert loved the photo so much that he cut his image out and send it to all his friends.
Kissing:The average person spends 2 weeks of its life kissing
Kneecaps:Babies are born without kneecaps. They appear when the child is 2-6 years of age.
Swans:When swans go on a date, they’ll put their heads together. Then they stick together for life.
Cats and Dogs:Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.
Sex:Each day, there are over 120 million sexual intercourse taking place all over the world.
Natural Blonds:One in fourteen women in America is a natural blonde. Only one in sixteen men is.
Rigor mortis:After human death, post-mortem rigidity starts in the head and travels to the feet, and leaves the same way it came.

Horny Rats:Male and female rats may have sex twenty times a day.

How long after the expiration date is it safe to drink milk?
The date you see on milk cartons isn’t an expiration date. In other words, the milk doesn’t necessarily go bad the next day. The date is placed there “to let stores know when to pull products from the shelf to maintain top quality,” according to Judy Simon, a nutritionist with the University of Washington Medical Center. “You can still safely drink milk three to seven days after the date if the milk has been stored properly.”
Marijuana and Dysentery:The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery.
Quad Armadillos:Armadillos have four babies at a time, always all the same sex. They are perfect quadruplets, the fertilized cell split into quarters, resulting in four identical armadillos.
Impotence and divorce
Impotence is legal grounds for divorce in 24 American states.
Killer Bees
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
The Scooter
When Voyager 2 visited Neptune it saw a small irregular white cloud that zips around Neptune every sixteen hours or so now known as "The Scooter".
Skin Dust
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
Fish Memory
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
Blood donation
Less than 7% of the population donates blood
Orthodontists
An orthodontist needs four years of college, four years of dental school, and two years of postgraduate study in orthodontics before they can practice orthodontics.
All orthodontists are also board certified dentists
Dr Charles Tweed was the first certified orthodontist in the US.
An orthodontist needs four years of college, four years of dental school, and two years of postgraduate study in orthodontics before they can practice orthodontics.All orthodontists are also board certified dentistsDr Charles Tweed was the first certified orthodontist in the US.The first "braces" were constructed by Pierre Fauchard in 1728. Fauchard's "braces" consisted of a flat strip of metal, which was connected to teeth by pieces of thread.Bands were invented by Schange in 1841. The first bands consisted of an strip of metal, with a screw to adjust their size.Orthodontic Brackets were invented by Edward Angle in 1915. The brackets consisted of little hooks of metal, which were attached to bands which went around your teeth.Dr Angle modified his design, producing the edgewise bracket in 1928. If you or your parents got braces before 1970, they probably got braces similar to those invented by Dr Angle
Snoring
If the roof of your mouth is narrow, you are more prone to snore since you are not getting enough oxygen through your nose.
Chewing
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
How many people are alive?
5.8 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
Blood
It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.
Cancer rates
Cancer may affect people at all ages, even fetuses, but the risk for most varieties increases with age. Cancer causes about 13% of all deaths. According to the American Cancer Society, 7.6 million people died from cancer in the world during 2007. Cancers can affect all animals.
Cornea
The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air.
Knuckle cracking
The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
Eyebrow
There are approx. 550 hairs in the eyebrow.
Handness
If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
What is chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, specifically those of micro-organisms or cancer. In popular usage, it will usually refer to antineoplastic drugs used to treat cancer or the combination of these drugs into a standardized treatment regimen.
Heart pumping
The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 10 meters in the air.
Height
We are about 1 cm taller in the morning than in the evening. Layers of cartilage in the joints gets compressed during the day
After death
Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death.
What is ionizing radiation
Ionizing radiation consists of highly-energetic particles or waves that can detach (ionize) at least one electron from an atom or molecule. Ionizing ability depends on the energy of the impinging individual particles or waves, and not on their number. A large flood of particles or waves generally will not cause ionization if these particles or waves do not carry enough energy to be ionizing.
Titanic
It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.
Why is the sky blue?
When sunlight travels through the atmosphere, it collides with gas molecules. These molecules scatter the light. The shorter the wavelength of light, the more it is scattered by the atmosphere. Because it has a shorter wavelength than the other colours, blue light is scattered more, ten times more than red light, for instance. That is why the sky is blue.
Alergic to cats?
People that are allergic to cats will be able to pet them without sneezing and scratching. Genetically engineered cats will be produced to help people with allergies enjoy their sneeze-free kitties Allerca, Inc., a biotechnology firm in San Diego, California, says it has bred Hypoallergenic Cats and is now taking orders from customers in the United States.
Blinking
Women blink twice as many times as men do.
Laughing
Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.
What is radiation therapy?
Radiation therapy (or radiotherapy) is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells (not to be confused with radiology, the use of radiation in medical imaging and diagnosis). Radiotherapy may be used for curative or adjuvant cancer treatment. It is used as palliative treatment (where cure is not possible and the aim is for local disease control or symptomatic relief) or as therapeutic treatment (where the therapy has survival benefit and it can be curative)
Inteligence and hair
Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Strange laws-2

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:42:00 +0000

In Galveston, Texas, it is illegal to have a camel run loose in the street

In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight.

In Singapore, it is illegal to chew gum.

In Cleveland, Ohio, it is unlawful to leave chewing gum in public places.

In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m.

In New York, it is against the law for children to pick up or collect cigarette and cigar butts.

In Massachusetts, it is against the law to put tomatos in clam chowder.

In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length.

In San Francisco, there is an ordinance, which bans the picking up and throwing of used confetti.

In Kentucky, it is illegal for a merchant to force a person into his place of business for the purpose of making a sale.

It is against the law in Connecticut for a man to write love letters to a girl whose mother or father has forbidden the relationship.

In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned.

In the state of Colorado, a pet cat, if loose, must have a tail-light !

In Phoenix, Arizona, you can't walk through a hotel lobby with spurs on.

In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing.

In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples.

In Michigan, it is against the law for a lady to lift her skirt more than 6 inches while walking through a mud puddle.

In North Carolina, it is against the law for a rabbit to race down the street.

In Georgia, it's against the law to spread a false rumor.

In West Virginia, one can't cook sauerkraut or cabbage due to the odors and the offence is subject to imprisonment.
In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave.

The law states that more than 3000 sheep cannot be herded down Hollywood Blvd. at any one time.

In Texas, it is still a "hanging offense" to steal cattle.

Strange laws

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:27:00 +0000

In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.
In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760.
Alaska law says that you can't look at a moose from an airplane.
In Corpus Christie, Texas, it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.
In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
It is against the law to mispronounce the name of the State of Arkansas in that State.
In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel.
California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat.
In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven.
In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping.
In New York, it is against the law for a blind person to drive an automobile.
In West Virginia, only babies can ride in a baby carriage.
In Georgia, it is against the law to slap a man on the back or front.
A barber is not to advertise prices in the State of Georgia.
In Louisiana, a bill was introduced years ago in the State House of Representatives that fixed a ceiling on haircuts for bald men of 25 cents.
In Oklahoma, no baseball team can hit the ball over the fence or out of a ballpark.
In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.
In Utah, birds have the right of way on any public highway.
In Ohio, one must have a license to keep a bear.
In Tennessee, a law exists which prohibits the sale of bologna (sandwich meat) on Sunday.
In Virginia, the Code of 1930 has a statute which prohibits corrupt practices or bribery by any person other than political candidates.
In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge.
In the State of Kansas, you're not allowed to drive a buffalo through a street.
In Florida, it is against the law to put livestock on a school bus.
In New Jersey, cabbage can't be sold on Sunday.

Strange facts-3

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:06:00 +0000

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!

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!

The starfish is one of the few animals who can turn it's stomach inside-out!
Eskimo ice cream is neither icy, or creamy!
A jellyfish is 95 percent water!
In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 can be jailed for cheating on their finals!
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs!
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate!
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
The elephant is one of the few mammals that can't jump!
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but not fly!
Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!

One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

America once issued a 5-cent bill!You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in a lifetime!
Wow!Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month!
Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunchBabe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool! He changed it every 2 innings!
Fortune cookies were actually invented in America, in 1918, by Charles Jung!A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! Wow!
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
Here are some interesting numbers to look at! (*1997)166,875,000,000 pieces of mail are delivered each year in the U.S!
1,525,000,000 miles of telephone wire a strung across the U.S!
123,000,000 cars are being driven down the U.S's highways!85,000,000 tons of paper are used each year in the U.S!
56,000,000 people go to Major League baseball each year!Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head!
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs!

There are over 58 million dogs in the U.S!
Dogs and cats consume over $11 billion worth of pet food a year!
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!Humans blink over 10,000,000 times a year!
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."!Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolateA fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
The fear of vegetables is called Lachanophobia!.. more fears There are approximately fifty Bibles sold each minute across the world!
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day!
Honolulu is the only place in the United States that has a royal palace!
One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!More money is spent on gardening than on any other hobby!
In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds!Rice paper does not have any rice in it!

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!

In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The blesbok, a South African antelope, is almost the same color as grapejuice!
The average person laughs 13 times a day!
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant!
Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
Of all the words in the English language, the word set has the most definitions!
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans!Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States!
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!

The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!
Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!

Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings!
Smelling bananas and/or green apples (smelling, not eating) can help you lose weight!
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons!
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people!
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tenniscourt!
After eating, a housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again

Strange facts -2

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:40:00 +0000

The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its fur!

Cat urine glows under a black-light!The world's termites outweigh the world's humans 10 to 1!

The electric chair was invented by a dentist!

Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!

A hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute on average!

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand!

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet at all times!

Human teeth are almost as hard as rocks!

A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night!

Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone!

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside!A quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, a dime has one less groove!

Hummingbirds can weigh less than a penny!!

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

The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off - it dies from starvation!

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie!

The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year!

It's against the law to pawn your dentures in Las Vegas!One in every 4 Americans has appeared on television!

The average American/Canadian will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year!

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a certain church in Omaha, Nebraska!you're born with 300 bones, but when you get to be an adult, you only have 206!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete!Over 10,000 birds a year die from smashing into windows!

The state of Florida is bigger than England!

There are more than one million animal species on Earth!

In Natoma, Kansas, it's illegal to throw knives at men wearing striped suitsIt was once against the law to have a pet dog in a city in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
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!

Strange facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:26:00 +0000

Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!

Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500!

The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!

Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

One car out of every 230 made was stolen last year!

The names of Popeye's four nephews are Pipeye, Peepeye, Pupeye, and Poopeye!

Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders!

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

A Boeing 747 airliner holds 57,285 gallons of fuel!A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for one minute. Half an ounce is used to start the average automobile!

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!

A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood!

It is estimated that 4 million "junk" telephone calls, phone solicitations by persons or programmed machine are made every day in the United States!

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the United States and Canada!

The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing!

One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!

It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!

A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle, a group of geese in the air is a skein!

50 Mind Blowing food facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:01:00 +0000

6 Blueberries can boost memory A study at Tufts University in Boston showed eating half a cup of this fruit regularly could delay age-related deterioration in co-ordination and short-term memory.
7 A pint is as good as red wine A pint of beer or stout is officially as beneficial as red wine for fighting cancer and heart disease, says scientists at Canada's University of Western Ontario.
8 Eat chocolate, live longer Hurray! Harvard University scientists say that eating a couple of chocolate bars a week could extend your life by almost a year.
9 Grapefruit juice can stop medicine working If you're taking medication, avoid washing it down with grapefruit juice as there is evidence that it prevents some drugs being broken down.
10 You should never drink tea or coffee with meals Tannins in tea and coffee prevent absorption of certain nutrients. A cup of tea with a meal will halve the iron you get from it, whereas a glass of orange juice will double it.
11 Cherries can cure gout Cherries contain compounds that significantly reduce the chemicals in the body which cause joint inflammation.
12 Eating curry could help prevent Alzheimer's According to a report in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a yellow pigment used in curry, curcumin, can stop amyloid plaques in the brain that cause the condition.
13 Sniffing a lemon could help you beat asthma The UK's 5.1 million asthmatics could find lemons ease their symptoms. Studies in rats found that breathing improved after they inhaled limonene, the chemical that gives lemons their smell.
14 Kiwi fruit can improve your eyesight This fuzzy fruit is a surprisingly good source of lutein, an antioxidant that protects your vision.
15 Garlic can cure mouth ulcers and verrucas Here's an old wives' tale that works: halve a clove of garlic, squeeze, and apply a drop of the juice to the offending growth at bedtime.
16 You can have too little salt Too much salt isn't good for us but not getting enough can trigger low blood pressure in those susceptible. Consult your GP before making any major diet changes.
17 Figs can delay brittle bone disease Good news for the three million osteoporosis sufferers in the UK - it is possible to slow its progress by eating calcium-packed figs.
18 Soya can mimic breast cancer drugs A team of Cambridge researchers discovered that a diet high in soya can have a similar effect to anti-cancer drug Tamoxifen.
19 Barbecued-food can cause cancer Eating meat that's chargrilled or burnt could lead to stomach, pancreatic, colon and breast cancer because it creates high levels of carcinogenic compounds.
20 Cinnamon can help diabetics Just half a teaspoon a day of this spice can significantly reduce blood sugar levels in diabetics, says US research.
21 Chillies can help you breath more easily Capsaicin, which occurs in chillies, shrinks the mucous membranes which can ease blocked noses and sinuses.
22 Watermelon is good for the prostate Men will be glad to know that the red flesh contains the antioxidant Lycopene, which helps keep the prostate gland healthy.
23 Coriander can lower your cholesterol levels This aromatic herb can reduce cholesterol levels and prevent heart problems.
24 Nibbling nuts can prevent blood clots Nuts boost nitric oxide, a compound that relaxes blood vessels and eases blood flow.
25 Banish bad breath with natural yoghurt A few spoonfuls of natural yoghurt can neutralise halitosis, according to Japanese researchers.
26 Artificial sweeteners can make you fat Research by US scientists shows that artificial sweeteners such as fructose change the body's metabolism, making it more likely you'll gain weight.
27 A caffeine hit can improve your love life If your libido's flagging, try a quick shot of espresso. Research shows a daily cup of coffee boosts blood circulation to vital areas.
28 Honey combats ulcers Manuka honey from New Zealand my be useful in preventing stomach ulcers, so have some in your morning porridge.
29 Olive oil can be as good for the heart as aspirin There is evidence that the main compound in olive oil, oleocanthal, contains the same properties as painkillers used to treat heart conditions.
30 Boozing can help you stay slim A recent study by US scientists discovered that women who enjoyed the "occasional" tipple were 27 per cent less likely than teetotallers to be obese.
31 Sesame seeds can lower blood pressure Try sprinkling on salad to reduce your blood pressure. They're also an excellent source of protein and calcium, iron and niacin.
32 Eating avocados can cheer you up These green fruits perk you up by boosting your serotonin levels, which can help to beat depression.
33 Fried eggs can cure a hangover A full English breakfast could be the ultimate hangover cure, thanks to the eggs. They're rich in cystine, an amino acid which helps purge toxins via the liver.
34 A daily cuppa could slash your risk of cancer Tea contains lots of flavonoids, disease-fighting substances that lower blood pressure, fight cancer and even prevent wrinkles. One cup a day may halve your risk of liver cancer.
35 Rhubarb can relieve constipation This red fruit, delicious in crumbles, contains a natural laxative.
36 Drinking green tea can prevent prickly heat Green tea is not just an excellent antioxidant - sipping it can help you avoid a painful bout of prickly heat.
37 Pasta may aid sleep Going to bed after eating carbohydrates can induce restful sleep. Complex carbs like whole wheat pasta and bread are most effective.
38 Semi-skimmed milk contains more calcium Half-fat milk is not only lower in calories than full-fat, it also contains more calcium, protein and B vitamins. However it does contain less vitamin A and E.
39 Breakfast can reduce risk of throat cancer According to scientists at Aberdeen University, eating breakfast reduces your risk of developing oesophageal cancer.
40 Eat ice cream for glossy hair A few scoops can do wonders for your crowning glory due to ice cream's high levels of Vitamin B2.
41 Kidney beans help you look younger The US Department of Agriculture ranked these as the third most antioxidant-rich food.
42 Oily fish can ward off arthritis Salmon, mackerel and so on can prevent the onset of arthritis. Two to four portions a week is recommended.
43 Flaxseed oil can help you stay trim Drizzling this oil over salads and soups can trick the body into feeling full and storing less fat.
44 Spinach can make kidney stones worse High-oxalate foods such as spinach encourage the formation of kidney stones, which occur when waste products in the urine crystallise.
45 Crusty bread may cut cancer Crusts have eight times the amount of cancer-fighting antioxidants called pronyl-lysine than the rest of the bread, according to a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
46 Boiling hot drinks can ruin your smile Drinking very hot fluids can cause your gums to recede, leaving them prone to infection. Allow drinks to cool before drinking.
47 Frozen vegetables are just as healthy as fresh Although generally speaking fresh is best, providing the fruit or vegetables are frozen immediately after picking, they will retain most of their nutrients and vitamins.
48 Drinking fruit juice can rot your teeth High fructose levels in fruit can cause tooth decay. Have them with meals or brush your teeth directly after drinking.
49 Fizzy drinks can lower your immunity The tartrazine found in fizzy drinks causes depletion of the body's zinc levels. Zinc plays a vital role in supporting our immune systems - 15mg a day is the recommended daily amount.
50 Teabags can fight cold sores Placing a cold, used teabag on a cold sore can reduce inflammation and infection.

Abortion facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:01:00 +0000

When does the unborn baby’s heart begin to beat?
The heartbeat begins on the 21st day after conception.

When does the brain begin to function?
Electrical brain waves have been recorded as early as forty days.

How early can a baby survive outside the mother’s womb?
Currently, twenty weeks is considered the accepted minimum. However, this time will be reduced as medical technology continues to improve.

What about cases of rape and incest?
Pregnancy from rape is extremely rare. As reasons for legalizing abortion rape and incest are nothing more than emotional screens used by those profiting from abortion. But we must approach the victim of rape or incest with great compassion. The woman has been subjected to an ugly trauma, and she needs love, support and help. But she has been the victim of one violent act. Should we now ask her to be a party to a second violent act -that of abortion? Unquestionably, many would return the violence of killing an innocent baby for the violence of rape. But, before making this decision, remember that most of the trauma has already occurred. She has been raped. That trauma will live with her all her life. Furthermore, this girl did not report for help, but kept this to herself. For several weeks or months, she has thought of little else. Now, she has finally asked for help, has shared her upset, and should be in a supportive situation.

But what about the child with disease who will die a slow death or live his life as a burden to his family?
Do you believe the new “ethic” should be that we kill the suffering or burdensome? Some of these cases are tragic, some are also inspirational. We cannot assume the responsibility for killing an unborn child simply because the child has not yet been seen in public. The child’s place of residence does not change what abortion does - kill a human being.

What about the population boom? We can hardly feed the people of the world now!
True, the population of the world is growing, but population is not much of a problem in the United States. With a birth every 8 seconds and a death every 11 seconds, the U.S. population is growing at less than one percent per year.
Population growth or decline compares replacement of the current number of reproductive age individuals with the number of babies being born. By this measure, the United States is now in a sharp population decline.

Health facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:53:00 +0000

* In Botswana, more than one in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS.

* The average woman in New Zealand doesn’t give birth until she is nearly 30 years old.

* Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.

* 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

* In Ethiopia, nine out of ten births occur without skilled health staff present.

* The United States tops the world in plastic surgery procedures. Next comes Mexico.

* Only 4% of married women in Chad are using contraceptives.

* More than half of all doctors in Finland are female.

* One in three Italian babies is born by caesarean section.

The rarest coffee & chocolate is???

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:51:00 +0000

The rarest coffee in the world is Kopi Luwak, which is found in Indonesia. It cost about $300 a pound.

The rarest chocolate bar in the world is the Porcelana bar. There are only 20,000 of these bars produced a year, and they sell for $90 per pound

The reason why??? facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:48:00 +0000

The reason why milk is white is because it contains a protein called Casein, which is white. Milk also contains fat, which is also white.

The reason why locusts swarm are because when they are in groups, a “hot-spot” behind their hind legs is stimulated, which in turn causes their destructive nature. A large swarm of locusts can eat eighty thousand tons of corn in a day.

The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing “melanin” which gives the hair colour.

The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing “melanin” which gives the hair colour.

The reason why golf balls have dimples on them is because it helps in the ball to move a farther distance by reducing drag.

The reason why flamingos are pink is because they eat shrimp which have a red pigment.

The reason why bubbles are round is because this is the most efficient shape that the soap film can take for the amount of air trapped inside.

The reason why bubble gum is pink is because the inventor only had pink colouring left. Ever since then, the colour of bubble gum has been predominantly pink.

The reason the soft drink Dr Pepper is called that is because the inventor Wade Morrison named it after Dr. Charles Pepper who had given him his first job.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yorewhen the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on theground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.

mixed facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:42:00 +0000

The tallest woman that ever lived was Zeng Jinlian who was 8 feet 2 inches tall of China. Shed died at the age of 17.

The tallest woman in the world is American Sandy Allen who is 7 feet 7 inches.

The tallest mammal in the world is the giraffe.

The tallest freestanding sculpture in the world is Chief Crazy Horse in South Dakota, USA.

The Taj Mahal was actually built for use as a tomb.

The Super Bowl is so popular that it is the number on at-home party event of the year.

The Super Bowl is broadcast to over 182 countries in the world.

The sun shrinks five feet every hour.

The sun is approximately 75% hydrogen, 25% helium by mass.

The sun is approximately 149 million kilometres from the earth.

The substance that gives red wine and dark beer its color is said to have a positive effects on cholesterol and blood pressure.

The study of twins is known as gemellology.

The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.

The study of ants is called Myrmecology.

The stringy thing that is seen in egg whites is called “chalazae.”

The strike note of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is e-flat.

The story of Mulan had been told in China for almost 1,500 years before Disney decided to make it into an animated movie.

The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material.

The state that has the most diners in the world is New Jersey, which is referred to as the “Diner Capital of the World.”

The state that grows the most cranberries is Wisconsin. More than 300 million pounds of cranberries are grown in Wisconsin.

The state of Tennessee was known as Franklin before 1796.

The state of California has more 7-Eleven stores than any other state. There are approximately 1,200 stores.

The state of Alaska has almost twice as many caribou as people.

The stapler was invented in Spring Valley, Minnesota.

The Stanley Cup originally was only seven and a half inches high.

The stage were the television sitcom “Friends” is shot on is said to be haunted.

The Spring peeper (a frog) can survive the winter season with 65% of its body water as ice.

The spray WD-40 got its name because there were forty attempts needed before the creation of the “water displacing” substance.

The sport of surfing originated in Hawaii.

The sport Lacrosse was initially played by Native American Indians. They played the sport to prepare for war.

The spider used in the 2002 movie Spider-Man was a Steatoda spider, not a black widow. The spider was given anaesthesia, and was then painted blue and red.

The sperm count of an average American male compared to thirty years ago is down thirty percent.

The speed of sound must be exceeded to produce a sonic boom.

The speed at which honey bees fly is at 15 miles per hour.

The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in Jello
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The sound made by the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe is so loud that it can be heard 40 miles away.

The sound made by the toadfish when mating underwater is so loud that it can be heard by humans on the shore.

The sole purpose of a drone bee is to mate with the queen bee.

The snow leopard protects itself from extreme cold when it sleeps by wrapping its 3-foot-long tail around its nose.

The smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases.

The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.

The smallest will ever written was 3.8 cm in diameter. It had 40 words written on it and was signed by two witnesses.

The smallest stamp in the world was issued in 1863 by the Columbian state of Bolivar and measured 9.5 x 8mm.

The smallest frog is the “Brazilian baby frog”, which is smaller than a dime.

The smallest bone in the human body is the stirrup bone, which is located in the ear.

The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.

The smallest bird in the world is the bee hummingbird. The bird is 2.24 inches long.

The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.

Heart facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 07:06:00 +0000

Your system of blood vessels – arteries, veins and capillaries – is over 60,000 miles long. That's long enough to go around the world more than twice!

The adult heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood each minute – approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day – throughout the body.

When attempting to locate their heart, most people place their hand on their left chest. Actually, your heart is located in the center of your chest between your lungs. The bottom of the heart is tipped to the left, so you feel more of your heart on your left side of your chest.

The heart beats about 100,000 times each day.

In a 70-year lifetime, the average human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times

An adult woman’s heart weighs about 8 ounces, a man’s about 10 ounces

A child’s heart is about the size of a clenched fist; an adult’s heart is about the size of two fists.

Blood is about 78 percent water.

Blood takes about 20 seconds to circulate throughout the entire vascular system.

The structure of the heart was first described in 1706, by Raymond de Viessens, a French anatomy professor.

The electrocardiograph (ECG) was invented in 1902 by Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven. This test is still used to evaluate the heart’s rate and rhythm.

The first heart specialists emerged after World War I.

Interesting internet facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:14:00 +0000

TOTAL NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS ONLINE
1993
– 4.6 million online in US

1995
– 9.6 million online in US
– 19% are shopping online

1996
– 10 million online in US (4% of US population)
– 8% of online users buying products via Internet

1997
– 11 million online in US
– 17% claim to be online buyers spending at least $50 a year
– 27% are shopping online

1998
– 19.1 million online in US
– 20 million users (”netizens”) worldwide say Internet is indispensable
– over 1.2 million users in Russia

1999
– 158 million online worldwide
– 58 million - 92 million online in US (depending on research source)
– average surfer got over 1,700 email messages
– 37 million use Web for e-commerce

2000
– 122.7 million online in US (source Yahoo! Internet Life)
– 180 million online in the US as of December 2000
– 2.1 billion online worldwide (out of 6 billion)
– Internet sales up 1,200% since 1997
– 500,000 new users to Internet every month
– 7 million US homes now getting 10 MB of two-way Internet access

2003
– 500 million users projected to be online
INTERNET STATS (as of Septermber 2000)
– 76 million in US surf Internet and use email daily
– 333.5 million e-mail accounts active in US (in 1998 it was 77 million)
– 46% of American workers use the Net for personal reasons
– 48% of engaged couples used Web to gather info on and plan weddings
– 55% of online gamblers are women
– 650 thousand new jobs created based on Internet contact
– 5,400 jobs cut between January and June 2000 due to dot-com failures
– 44% of online surfers have participated in an online auction this year
– 32% used the Net to keep up with and gather voting and election
information
– 18% relay on Internet “completely” or “very much” for daily news
– 68% say that e-mail and instant messaging has reduced long distance
phone bill
– 71% of men have shop online
– 58% of women shop online
– Most likely shoppers are males with at least Bachelor’s degree and
earning $75,000
– Companies are launching Web sites at record pace
– Over half of all businesses with Web sites maintain their own site
– advertising online has gone from $400 million in 1997 to $4.8 billion
in 2000
– 32 million households to bank online by 2003

OTHER INTERESTING STATS
– Total US business at end of 1996 - 6.22 million

– 50% of all businss owners are 35-54 years old
– 50% of these are 35-44 years old
– 70% are married
– 54% are home-based sole proprietorships
– 66% are first time businesses

DEMOGRAPHICS OF INTERNET USERS
2000
– 84% Caucasian (1999 - 76% Caucasian)
– 12 % African-American
– 3% Asian
– 1% mixed
–38% have Bachelor’s degree or higher (down from 47% in 1996)
–27% are relatively new to the Web
–60% are married or partnered (was 71% in 1997)
–Over 50% go online every day

TOP ONLINE ACTIVITIES
92% browse the Web
88% send/receive email
87% collect information about hobby or personal interest
81% collect product or service information
74% read the news
65% get business or work information
63% collect travel information
60% download images or photos
58% look up entertainment events
56% check the weather
xx% doing online investing

WHO’S BUYING WHAT (January 1999)

MEN
– men mostly buying computers, CDs and videos
– 12.6 million male shoppers research automobiles and buy auto parts
– 9.4 million men buy computers online

WOMEN
– number of women buyers up 80%
– 9.6 million women bought books, CDs and videos
– 6.9 million women buy clothing online
– 6.4 million women buy computers online

SMALL BUSINESS USE OF INTERNET
72% use for email and customer contact (up from 62% in 1999)
48% operate a Web site
28% sell goods or services online

WEB SITE STATS
Over 1 million active Web sites (over 80 million web pages)
– typical Web page 5k
– typical Web image 12k
– median site has 300 pages
– 50 sites have over 30,000 pages
– top 1,000 sites account for 50% of all web traffic

Do you know the Depths of Ocean???

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:35:00 +0000

Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean 35,827 ft

Puerto Rico Trench, Atlantic Ocean 30,246 ft

Java Trench, Indian Ocean 24,460 ft

Arctic Basin, Arctic Ocean 18,456 ft

Hottest place on earth....

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:26:00 +0000

Count one wrong if you guessed Death Valley in California. True enough on many days. But El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 — the hottest ever measured. In Death Valley, it got up to 134 Fahrenheit on July 10, 1913.

Amazing facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:21:00 +0000

In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth’s magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

The idea for “tribbles” in “Star Trek” came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren’t for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there’s no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say “gesundheit” to a sneezer was never repealed.

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don’t do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

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

Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender’s system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

The first McDonald’s restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

The Air Force’s F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly
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You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

Silly Putty was “discovered” as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It’s not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.
A cat’s purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his “signature” on the keyboard.

The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.

Calvin, of the “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don’t play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

A dog’s naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one’s nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden’s headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine.

Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.

Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.

Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost “an arm and a leg.”

When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.

Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models’ turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

Although difficult, it’s possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
Napoleon’s favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

The world’s smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

Due to the natural “momentum” of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

The “nine lives” attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.

Snake facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:10:00 +0000

Did you know that snake, like all reptiles are incapable of learning?
This is because they lack the enlarged Cerebral Hemispheres found in birds and mammals, this part of the brain controls learning and thought.

Did you know that snakes have no eyelids?
Instead of eyelids, snakes have a transparent scale protecting their eye.

Did you know that snakes are completely deaf?
All snakes are deaf to air born sounds but they do pick up vibrations in their jawbones and on their scent molecules on their tongue. These molecules are connected to the Jacobson's Organ.

Did you know that snakes move by using special muscles attached to their ribs?
If you put a snake on a smooth piece of glass, the snake will not be able to move because there is nothing to grab onto. The scales on their bellies also act as anchors.

Did you know that snakes can swallow big prey, three times bigger than their own mouth?
They are able to do this because they have special tendons in their mouth which can stretch very wide. On a couple of occasions, some snakes have swallowed whole Tigers. This would be equal to use swallowing a basketball!

Did you know that most snakes have over 200 teeth?
They use these teeth to hold their prey in place while eating. They cannot chew with these teeth because they are pointing backwards but they certainly can bite!

Do you know what snakes that climb trees are called?
Snakes that live or spend most of their time in trees are called Arboreal.

Did you know that snakes can't stop growing in their enclosures?
Most people think that if you put a snake in a small enclosure that it will stop growing or that it will grow so that it fits inside of the tank. This is not true.

The scientific study of reptiles and amphibians is called Herpetology!

People that study, keep and breed reptiles and amphibians are called Herpetologists!

Human Body facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:04:00 +0000

>> 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.

>> 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.

>> 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.

>> Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.

>> 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.

>> Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

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

>> 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.

>> Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

>> 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.

50 mind blowing food facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:40:00 +0000

1 Pineapple is a natural painkiller The fruit contains anti-inflammatory enzymes that bring pain relief from conditions such as arthritis, according to a study at Reading University.

2 Pomegranate juice could prevent a heart attack This wonder juice is believed to improve blood flow to the heart and lower blood pressure.

3 Onions are natural antibiotics They might make your breath pong but onions contain allicin, a powerful antibiotic that also protects the circulatory system.

4 Mushrooms can ward off colds They contain more of an immune-boosting antioxidant called ergothioneine than any other food, say researchers at Pennsylvania State University.

5 Beetroot can pep up your sex life It contains high levels of the mineral boron, which influences the production of sex hormones.

6 Blueberries can boost memory A study at Tufts University in Boston showed eating half a cup of this fruit regularly could delay age-related deterioration in co-ordination and short-term memory.

7 A pint is as good as red wine A pint of beer or stout is officially as beneficial as red wine for fighting cancer and heart disease, says scientists at Canada's University of Western Ontario.

8 Eat chocolate, live longer Hurray! Harvard University scientists say that eating a couple of chocolate bars a week could extend your life by almost a year.

9 Grapefruit juice can stop medicine working If you're taking medication, avoid washing it down with grapefruit juice as there is evidence that it prevents some drugs being broken down.

10 You should never drink tea or coffee with meals Tannins in tea and coffee prevent absorption of certain nutrients. A cup of tea with a meal will halve the iron you get from it, whereas a glass of orange juice will double it.

11 Cherries can cure gout Cherries contain compounds that significantly reduce the chemicals in the body which cause joint inflammation.

12 Eating curry could help prevent Alzheimer's According to a report in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, a yellow pigment used in curry, curcumin, can stop amyloid plaques in the brain that cause the condition.

13 Sniffing a lemon could help you beat asthma The UK's 5.1 million asthmatics could find lemons ease their symptoms. Studies in rats found that breathing improved after they inhaled limonene, the chemical that gives lemons their smell.

14 Kiwi fruit can improve your eyesight This fuzzy fruit is a surprisingly good source of lutein, an antioxidant that protects your vision.

15 Garlic can cure mouth ulcers and verrucas Here's an old wives' tale that works: halve a clove of garlic, squeeze, and apply a drop of the juice to the offending growth at bedtime.

16 You can have too little salt Too much salt isn't good for us but not getting enough can trigger low blood pressure in those susceptible. Consult your GP before making any major diet changes.

17 Figs can delay brittle bone disease Good news for the three million osteoporosis sufferers in the UK - it is possible to slow its progress by eating calcium-packed figs.

18 Soya can mimic breast cancer drugs A team of Cambridge researchers discovered that a diet high in soya can have a similar effect to anti-cancer drug Tamoxifen.

19 Barbecued-food can cause cancer Eating meat that's chargrilled or burnt could lead to stomach, pancreatic, colon and breast cancer because it creates high levels of carcinogenic compounds.

20 Cinnamon can help diabetics Just half a teaspoon a day of this spice can significantly reduce blood sugar levels in diabetics, says US research.

21 Chillies can help you breath more easily Capsaicin, which occurs in chillies, shrinks the mucous membranes which can ease blocked noses and sinuses.

22 Watermelon is good for the prostate Men will be glad to know that the red flesh contains the antioxidant Lycopene, which helps keep the prostate gland healthy.

23 Coriander can lower your cholesterol levels This aromatic herb can reduce cholesterol levels and prevent heart problems.

24 Nibbling nuts can prevent blood clots Nuts boost nitric oxide, a compound that relaxes blood vessels and eases blood flow.

25 Banish bad breath with natural yoghurt A few spoonfuls of natural yoghurt can neutralise halitosis, according to Japanese researchers.

26 Artificial sweeteners can make you fat Research by US scientists shows that artificial sweeteners such as fructose change the body's metabolism, making it more likely you'll gain weight.

27 A caffeine hit can improve your love life If your libido's flagging, try a quick shot of espresso. Research shows a daily cup of coffee boosts blood circulation to vital areas.

28 Honey combats ulcers Manuka honey from New Zealand my be useful in preventing stomach ulcers, so have some in your morning porridge.

29 Olive oil can be as good for the heart as aspirin There is evidence that the main compound in olive oil, oleocanthal, contains the same properties as painkillers used to treat heart conditions.

30 Boozing can help you stay slim A recent study by US scientists discovered that women who enjoyed the "occasional" tipple were 27 per cent less likely than teetotallers to be obese.

31 Sesame seeds can lower blood pressure Try sprinkling on salad to reduce your blood pressure. They're also an excellent source of protein and calcium, iron and niacin.

32 Eating avocados can cheer you up These green fruits perk you up by boosting your serotonin levels, which can help to beat depression.

33 Fried eggs can cure a hangover A full English breakfast could be the ultimate hangover cure, thanks to the eggs. They're rich in cystine, an amino acid which helps purge toxins via the liver.

34 A daily cuppa could slash your risk of cancer Tea contains lots of flavonoids, disease-fighting substances that lower blood pressure, fight cancer and even prevent wrinkles. One cup a day may halve your risk of liver cancer.
35 Rhubarb can relieve constipation This red fruit, delicious in crumbles, contains a natural laxative.

36 Drinking green tea can prevent prickly heat Green tea is not just an excellent antioxidant - sipping it can help you avoid a painful bout of prickly heat.

37 Pasta may aid sleep Going to bed after eating carbohydrates can induce restful sleep. Complex carbs like whole wheat pasta and bread are most effective.

38 Semi-skimmed milk contains more calcium Half-fat milk is not only lower in calories than full-fat, it also contains more calcium, protein and B vitamins. However it does contain less vitamin A and E.

39 Breakfast can reduce risk of throat cancer According to scientists at Aberdeen University, eating breakfast reduces your risk of developing oesophageal cancer.

40 Eat ice cream for glossy hair A few scoops can do wonders for your crowning glory due to ice cream's high levels of Vitamin B2.

41 Kidney beans help you look younger The US Department of Agriculture ranked these as the third most antioxidant-rich food.

42 Oily fish can ward off arthritis Salmon, mackerel and so on can prevent the onset of arthritis. Two to four portions a week is recommended.

43 Flaxseed oil can help you stay trim Drizzling this oil over salads and soups can trick the body into feeling full and storing less fat.

44 Spinach can make kidney stones worse High-oxalate foods such as spinach encourage the formation of kidney stones, which occur when waste products in the urine crystallise.

45 Crusty bread may cut cancer Crusts have eight times the amount of cancer-fighting antioxidants called pronyl-lysine than the rest of the bread, according to a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

46 Boiling hot drinks can ruin your smile Drinking very hot fluids can cause your gums to recede, leaving them prone to infection. Allow drinks to cool before drinking.

47 Frozen vegetables are just as healthy as fresh Although generally speaking fresh is best, providing the fruit or vegetables are frozen immediately after picking, they will retain most of their nutrients and vitamins.

48 Drinking fruit juice can rot your teeth High fructose levels in fruit can cause tooth decay. Have them with meals or brush your teeth directly after drinking.

49 Fizzy drinks can lower your immunity The tartrazine found in fizzy drinks causes depletion of the body's zinc levels. Zinc plays a vital role in supporting our immune systems - 15mg a day is the recommended daily amount.

50 Teabags can fight cold sores Placing a cold, used teabag on a cold sore can reduce inflammation and infection.

facts that you may not know....

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:31:00 +0000

1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 11 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19.John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same Airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.

58 Interesting facts

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:04:00 +0000

1. Turtles have no teeth.
2. Prehistoric turtles may have weighed as much as 5,000 pounds.
3. Only one out of a thousand baby sea turtles survives after hatching.
4. Sea turtles absorb a lot of salt from the sea water in which they live. They excrete excess salt from their eyes, so it often looks as though they'recrying.
5. Helium is a colourless, odourless, tasteless inert gas at room temperature and makes up about 0.0005% of the air we breathe.
6. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest thingswill rise to the top.
7. Helium Balloon Gas makes balloons float. Helium is lighter than air and just as the heaviest things will tend to fall to the bottom, the lightest thingswill rise to the top.
8. Camels can spit.
9. An ostrich can run 43 miles per hour (70 kilometers per hour).
10. Pigs are the fourth most intelligent animal in the world.
11. Dinosaurs didn't eat grass? There was no grass in the days of the dinosaurs.
12. Dolphins can swim 37 miles per hour (60 kilometers per hour).
13. A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth? It cannot move. It cannot chew but its Digestive juices are so strong that it can digest a steelnail, Glass pieces, etc
14. Sharks are immune to disease i.e they do not suffer from any Disease.
15. Animals are either right- or left-handed? Polar bears are always left-handed, and so is Kermit the Frog.16. Paris, France has more dogs than people.
17. New Zealand is home to 70 million sheep and only 40 million people.
18. Male polar bears weigh 1400 pounds and females only weight 550 pounds, on average.
19. Bison are excellent swimmers? Their head, hump and tail never go below the surface of the water.
20. There are 6 to 14 frogs species in the world that have no tongues. One of these is the African dwarf frog.
21. A frog named Santjie, who was in a frog derby in South Africa jumped 33 feet 5.5 inches.
22. The longest life span of a frog was 40 years
23. The eyes of a frog flatten down when it swallows its prey
24. The name `India' is derived from the River Indus
25. The Persian invaders converted it into Hindu. The name `Hindustan' combines Sindhu and Hindu and thus refers to the land of the Hindus.
26. Chess was invented in India.
27. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
28. The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game representedvirtues and the snakes indicated vices.
29. India has the most post offices in the world
30. 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH
31. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
32. Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world
33. The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.
34. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
35. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start
36. Twenty-Four- Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with thehands.
37. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
38. The first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along
39. The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
40. A cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).
41. The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'
42. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
43. Ants don't sleep.
44. Dolphins usually live up to about twenty years, but have been known to live for about forty.
45. Dolphins sleep in a semi-alert state by resting one side of their brain at a time
46. A dolphin can hold its breath for 5 to 8 minutes at a time
47. Bats can detect warmth of an animal from about 16 cm away using its "nose-leaf".
48. Bats can also find food up to 18 ft. away and get information about the type of insect using their sense of echolocation.
49. The eyes of the chameleon can move independently & can see in two different directions at the same time.
50. Cockroach: Can detect movement as small as 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom.
51. Dragonfly: Eye contains 30,000 lenses.
52. Pig's Tongue contains 15,000 taste buds. For comparison, the human tongue has 9,000 taste buds.
53. The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.
54. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in theirhair.
55. Earth weighs 5,972,000,000, 000,000,000, 000 tons
56. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
57. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere
58. Man is the only animal who'll eat with an enemy

Fantastic Animals Fact

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:02:00 +0000

A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time.

Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.

A cockroach can live for up to a week without a head.

An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.

Amazon ants (red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!

A leech is a worm that feeds on blood. It will pierce its victim's skin, fill itself with three to four times its own body weight in blood, and will not feed again for months. Leeches were once used by doctors to drain “bad blood” from sick patients.

Lovebirds are small parakeets who live in pairs. Male and female lovebirds look alike, but most other male birds have brighter colors than the females.

Only female mosquitoes bite. Females need the protein from blood to produce their eggs.

Cats have about 250 muscles in each ear.

African elephants are the largest and heaviest mammals on land. They weigh up to 14,000 pounds, and can eat as much as 600 pounds of food a day!

The inland Taipan is considered the most poisonous snake on the planet. One bite from this shy reptile, which is native to Australia, contains enough toxin to kill about 100 people.

The blue whale is the world's biggest animal, even larger than any known dinosaur. An average-sized adult is 80 feet long and weighs about 120 tons. This giant is also the loudest animal on Earth. Its call, which is louder than a jet, can be heard for hundreds of miles.

Giraffes not only have long necks, they also have enormous tongues, which can be 18 inches long.

Kangaroo can jump up to 30 feet in one leap!

Hippopotamuses are quick-footed giants. They can weigh up to 9,000 pounds and run up to 20 miles per hour.

The anopheles mosquito is the deadliest creature on Earth. It’s responsible for more than 300 million cases of malaria each year and causes between one and three million deaths.

The smallest fish in the world is believed to be the Paedocypris progenetica, which was recently discovered in Indonesia. It measures just over one-third of an inch long and has a see-through body.

Horned lizards can shoot blood from their eyes.

The giant tortoise can live up to about 175 years. In fact, Harriet, a Galapagos tortoise and probably the world’s oldest creature, died in Australia in June 2006. She was 176 years old!

Jeans history fact

noreply@blogger.com (Yogesh) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:42:00 +0000

Jeans history Facts

Jeans have a long history, unlike most fashion fads, which tend to be fleeting. The fabrics denim and jean originated in Europe in the late 16th century.

18th century

American mills begin producing their own jean. Laborers wear the durable clothing.

19th Century

San Francisco dry goods merchant Levi Strauss produces “waist overalls”—the early name for jeans. They become a hit with gold miners eager to strike it rich in California.
In 1886, Strauss adds a brown leather patch on the back of his waist overalls. The label, which shows a pair of jeans being pulled between two horses, is still affixed to Levi’s jeans.

20th Century

American men, eager to imitate movie stars such as John Wayne and Gary Cooper, who play rugged, waist-overalls-wearing cowboys in 1930s Hollywood Westerns, proudly don the pants.

1940

American troops pack their waist overalls when they travel overseas to fight in World War II. The trend catches on in Europe. Lee and Wrangler make their own jeans to compete with Levi’s.

1950s

Jeans, no longer called waist overalls, became a symbol of the teenage rebel, particularly after James Dean wears them in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. Some schools ban jeans.

1960s

Jeans dominate college campuses. Students began to personalize their jeans with paint, embroidery and patches.

1980s

Designer jeans, such as Sassoon, Jordache and Calvin Klein, emerge. Straight-leg, tight-fitting styles give jeans a new look.

1990s and on

Jeans are everywhere—on babies, parents, teachers and executives—and in a wide variety of styles, from boot cut to low-rise, bell bottoms to stone washed.