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Swarnim Gujrat Anthem - All informations

2011-07-21T19:23:00.006+06:00

The song was released as part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Gujarat state.

Gujrati Lyrics by Kavi Narmad
Additional inputs by Dilip Rawal, Ankit Trivedi, Sairam Dave andChiragh Tripathi.

Hindi Lyrics by Prasoon Joshi.

Production House : Bharatbala Productions
Directed by : Bharatbala

Music : AR Rahman

Post Production : Reliance MediaWorks ( Kartik Sherlekar,Kunal Chauhan, Nilesh Raut, Rajiv Bedi, Amit Chomal, Alok Potnis and team)
Director of Photography : Kiran Reddy ( Check his other works also , he has done many with ARR )

Singers : A R Rahman , RoopKumar Rathod, Sadhna Sargam , Keerti Sagathia

Complete Technical Credits Can be found here > http://www.arrahman.com/v2/discography/singles-jaijaigarvigujarat.html

Intial version audio Download Link [mp3] or From ARR's site [zip] ( Without A R Rahman's Vocal )

Gujrati Lyrics ( Courtesy : Rahmanism.com )

Dhara che aa mari dariya ni lahero aa che mari aa rann mane pyaru che
Khetar che shobha mari
Dhanya hu thai gayo
Aahi janm je maro thayo [II]

Jay jay jay jay garavi gujarat
Mara dil ma dhadake gujarat
Vishav nu dwar che
Aahi sada pyar che
Tane namu lakh var hu bhumi ma

Jay jay jay jay garavi gujarat mara dil ma dhadake gujarat
Aahi sidhh karya vyapar me dariyapar gujarati hu chhu
Mane phoolo jetalo parseva thi pyar gujarati hu chhu
Mari rag rag ma karuna seva sahkar gujarati hu chu
Har aafat same ubho bani padakar gujarati hu chhu

Jay jay jay jay garavi gujarat mara dil ma dhadake gujarat
Aankh na aa fafadat ma gagan kahi rahyu che mane khol tu
Lakshy ni par lakshy aapnu kahi rahyu che have bol tu
Kaik dwar haju kholava na che
Kaik zaruka bandh che
Muthhi o ma mari uchhadi je rahya sat suraj na chhand che
Jay jay jay jay garavi gujarat mara dil ma dhadke gujarat
Jay jay jay jay garavi gujarat mara desh nu aneru gujarat

Ek doro mari pase che to ek doro tari e pase che
Sath sahu madi vanie ek navi kalne ke je khas che
Anjali ma sankalp che ane aankho ma vishwas che
Man ma harakh ni vasadi che
Ane ek surili aas che
Heji reee heji reeeeeeeeeeeee

Hindi Lyrics ( Courtesy to : Prasoon Joshi )

Hawayein Ye Meri
Ye Nadiyan Kal Kal Bhi Hain Meri
Aasman ye mera hai

Fasalien ye hain meri
Dhanya Main Ho Gaya
Yahan janm jo liya
Jai Jai Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat
Mere dil main dhadke Gujarat
Jai Jai Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat
Mere dil main dhadke Gujarat
Naaz hai, pyaar hai
Sukh kit u dhaar hai
Tujhe naman baar baar hai
Jai Jai Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat
Mere dil main dhadke Gujarat
Jai Jai Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat
Mere dil main dhadke Gujarat
Ye mera tan man tujhpe kurbaan
O’ maati meri
Tu mera dil jaan jeevan samman
O’ dharti meri
Teri chhaya hai to khud pe hai abhimaan
O’ maati meri
Mere chehre pe likh di tone muskaan
O’ dharti meri
Jai Jai Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat
Mere dil main dhadke Gujarat
Meri vijay ki goonj hai saat samandar Paar
Gujrati hoon main
Meri bhuja bhuja main karm ke hi sanskaar
Gujrati hoon main
Mera hriday prem se chalke barambaar
Gujrati hoon main
Maine toofano se kabhi na maani haar
Gujrati hoon main
Phadphada raha hai aasman dekho
Keh raha hai mujhe khol de
Laksya ke pare laksya hai mera
Keh raha hai ye bol de
Kitne dwar abhi kholne hain mujhe
Kitni khidkiyan band hain
Muttiyon meri jo machal raha hain
Roshni ki kayee chand hai
Jai Jai Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat
Mere dil main dhadke Gujarat
Jai Jai Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat
Hamare desh ka gehna Gujarat

Additional Line:

Ek dhaga mere paas hai toh
Ek dhaga tere bhi paas hai
Mil ke hum bunein ek kal naya
Dhaga Dhaga ehsaas hai
Anjali main sankalp hai meri
Aur nayan main vishwaas hai
Man main karm ki bansuri hai
Ek surili aas hai

A R Rahman at "In The Mix Studios" [Pics]

2011-04-27T20:57:00.000+06:00

Thanks a lot to Sabu v Simon for the pics :-)

Oscars & A.R.Rahman - Some simple statistics

2011-01-27T18:36:00.005+06:00

Being a Rahmaniac i really dont know if it's a good idea to compare ARR with other legendary composers in terms of getting nominations @ Oscars or winning them !! Though it will make the idea of ARR's current position in the world music arena more clear !!

Michael Giacchino nominated 2 times - won 1 - win ratio 50%
Ray evans nominated 7 times - won 3 - win ratio 42.86%
Alan Menken nominated 19 times - won 8 - win ratio 42.11 %
A.R.Rahman nominated for 5 times - won 2 - win ratio 40%
Jimmy van heusen nominated 14times - won 4 - win ratio 28.57%
Alfred newman nominated 45 times - won 9 - win ratio 20%
James horner nominated 10 times - won 2 - win ratio 20%
Jhon williams nominated 45 times - won 5 - win ratio 11.11%
Hans Zimmer nominated 9 times - won 1 - win ratio 11.11%
James newton howard nominated 8 times - won 0
Alexandre desplat nominated 3 times - won 0
Thomas newman nominated 10 times - won 0
Danny Elfman nominated 4 times - won 0
Ennio Moricone nominated 5times - won 0 ( One honorary oscar in 2007 , he is supposedly ARR's fav Composer )

You can also check the rules for Music category
http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/rules/rule16.html

Global Indian Music Awards 2010 [Main Event] - DVD Quality Video - Download

2010-12-07T00:41:00.001+06:00

*DVD Quality Videos*

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part1.avi

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part2.avi

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part3.avi

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part4.avi

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part5.avi

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part6.avi

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part7.avi

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part8.avi

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - DVD - Part9.avi

*Good Quality Videos*

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - pt1.wmv

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - pt2.wmv

GIMA 2010 [Main Event] - pt3.wmv

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All HDTV videos from CWG opening ceremony [ Only ARR Related]

2010-10-22T13:06:00.000+06:00

ARR Performing CWG Theme >

Download > http://www.mediafire.com/?4hjzj3bka62wapa

Youtube > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2w5oiXX7M

ARR Performing Jai Ho >

Youtube > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Bd-YxwcNw

Facebook Video > http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1727706112297

Download > http://www.mediafire.com/?pbu0vdd2sb7ef3u

Naveen Kumar on Flute - Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi !!

Download > http://www.mediafire.com/?z1j936dz1152kzz

Swagatham By Hariharan ( Composed by ARR ? )

Download >

Part1 > http://www.mediafire.com/?zxcrg3a3yu0tb3z

Part2 > http://www.mediafire.com/?qpzfcfjtmvi1idr

Do we need anything else ??

Hearty thanks to Liku Bro for uploading all these !!

A.R.Rahman Performing @ CWG 2010 , Delhi Opening - HQ Video - Download

2010-10-07T08:39:00.000+06:00

Download

A.R.Rahman Performing @ CWG,Delhi 2010 - Opening Ceremony.avi

HDTV Recording from BBC One Coming soon !!

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa - A.R.Rahman Special - Full Episode HQ - Download

2010-09-18T11:01:00.000+06:00

Normal Quality Download

SRGMP - Normal Quality Part1.wmv

SRGMP - Normal Quality Part2.wmv

DVD Quality Downloads

SRGMP- 17th Sep 2010- A.R.Rahman Special - Part1.avi

SRGMP- 17th Sep 2010- A.R.Rahman Special - Part2.avi

SRGMP- 17th Sep 2010- A.R.Rahman Special - Part3.avi

SRGMP- 17th Sep 2010- A.R.Rahman Special - Part4.avi

SRGMP- 17th Sep 2010- A.R.Rahman Special - Part5.avi

BBC - Peschardt's people - A.R.Rahman - Complete Episode

2010-05-30T16:00:00.000+06:00

A.R.Rahman @ IPL Awards 2010 - Video

2010-05-22T17:16:00.000+06:00

Share it with others !!! Njoy a different version of Vande mataram from the man himself !!!

Katrina Kaif & AR Rahman unveil Rhymeskool vol 1 album

2010-05-13T04:43:00.002+06:00

Again ..So many Pics ... Wait a min or so if u r using a slow connection !!

Cafe Fluid - Naveen Kumar - STRONGLY Recommended !!!

2010-05-05T02:35:00.004+06:00

A.R.Rahman's Flautist The amazing Mr. Naveen Kumar released his own Flute based album

Strongly recommended for Every (open minded) Music lover.

The cover and Inlays Got ARR's Messages >

ARR's bass guitarist Keith Peters, Sound engineer Deepak P.A also worked on this album !!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cafe-Fluid/dp/B003GDBGNI

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cafe-fluid/id366868317

A.R.Rahman @ Raavan Audio launch Pics

2010-05-03T19:52:00.003+06:00

From now ..will post all my Blocked mails here :-) and therez a Loads of them :-P

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: A.R.Rajib <a.r.rajib@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: ARR @ Raavan Audio launch Pics
To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com

Best of A.R.Rahman BGMs [Voiceless] [Must Have]

2010-04-28T21:39:00.000+06:00

These are for those who dont wanna listen to every single BGM of ARR ...Just listen to this ...this must be the shortest Collection of some of the awesomest BGM done By ARR !!!

Part 1 > http://www.mediafire.com/?x9tqjg0kx5w

part 2 > http://www.mediafire.com/?ntdtjqnpuyf

These are not Ripped or uploaded by me !!

Ranjha Ranjha - Michael Jackson

2010-04-27T06:33:00.000+06:00

What if Michael Jackson was alive ? and had danced on Ranjha Ranjha ... How would it look ? Let's See !

Video Edited by Me ( A.R.Rajib )

DONT Upload this video to anywhere !!

Or >

Post your comments !!

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya - Voiceless BGMs 320Kbps

2010-04-22T03:26:00.003+06:00

CREDIT TO SpEd

Quality Is A-W-E-S-O-M-E

Tracks

1.Introduction
2.Karthik & Jessy Introduction
3.Kathik Sees Jessy
4.Karthik Falls For Jessy
5.Hosanna Movie Version
6.Director Happy About Karthik's Love
7.Karthik Admires Jessy
8.Jessy At Karthik's House
9.Karthik Talks To Jessy
10.KFC ingethaan iruku. Yenakum Rombe Pudikum
11.Karthik Admires Jessy Secretly
12.I Dont Wanna Be Ya Brother Jessy
13. Im In Love With U Jessy
14.This Is Jessy
15. Sir..Sorrynu Ketka Vantha..Vithukku Sapade Kupudrange Sir.
16.Jessy Feels Shy
17.Kalichodu Kalicho
18.Hosanna Humming
19.Lets Be Friends
20.What Makes You To Like Me
21.Leaving To Hometown & Omana Penne
22.Jessy Is Driving Me Crazy
23.No One Can Stop Me From Living With You
24.Both Meet Again
25.Omana Penne Bit
26.Jessy Driving Me Crazy II
27.You're The First One Whu Kissed Me
28.Bike Ride
29.Talking Happily Leads To Fight
30. I Cant Stop Loving U For Your Father's Sake
31.Jessy Gets Angry
32.Kannukul Kannai Movie Version
33.I Get Only At Times
34.Im A Boxer
35.Karthik Meets Jessy After A Fight With Jessy's Brother
36.Did You Expect Me To Lick His Legs.
37.Jessy Tells Karthik About Her Wedding
38.Jessy Stops Wedding
39.Jessy Neglected Dads Request
40.Jessy Walked Away
41.Karthik Gets Happy
42.Jessy Leaves Church
43.Jessy's Brother Stops The Bus
44.Karthik Fights
45.Director Advises
46. Aaromale Female
47. Maanipaaya Movie Version
48.Jessy And Karthik In Private
49. Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya Song
50. Hosanna Humming
51.No Sms.No Calls
52.Karthik At Goa
53.Jessy Thinks Of Karthik
54.Karthik Calls Jessy
55.Call For Jessy
56.Need Permission From Director
57.Karthik Leaves To Meet Jessy
58.Jessy Is Driving Me Crazy
59.Karthik At Jessys Place
60.Karthik Brings Jessy Downstairs
61.Karthik Gets Angry
62.Karthik Leaves To Home
63.Karthik Waits To Meet Jessy
64. Aaromale Song
65.Hosanna Humming II
66.Karthik Plans For Movie
67.Karthik Meets Jessy At Shooting Spot
68.Karthik talks To Jessy About The Movie
69. Anbil Avaan Song
70. Movie By Karthik Finishes
71.Maanipaaya Tune
72.Jessy Been Driving Me Crazy
73.Hosanna Short Version

PART 1 > http://www.mediafire.com/?dlzwevyzkqk (106.76 MB)

PART 2 > http://www.mediafire.com/?laywyw3gwt2 (122.97 MB)

... All credits to the Original Ripper ..and the uploader :-)

A.R.Rahman Songs Deadly Mix Music Video - V2

2010-04-17T06:02:00.008+06:00

Watch from Facebook >

Or from Youtube >

This is the Version 2 of A.R.Rahman Songs Deadly Mix Music Video I did Earlier !!!

Video Edited By Me

Music Mix by :

Shailesh Engineer

Deejay Kave

Deepak P.A

Download Link for this Version > http://bit.ly/9ISfUB
( From Facebook's Server )

Download The video In 720p > http://www.mediafire.com/?ondzm0li5j1

Please Please Leave a comment !!!

Download "Lift Kara De" - A.R.Rahman Special Episode - HQ

2010-03-29T08:50:00.001+06:00

Download High Quality Videos Of "Lift Kara De" - A.R.Rahman Special Episode

:::::::::::::::::::::::::: Mediafire Link :::::::::::::::::::::::::
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?yix3wzajj0k
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?3tkzyy1snno
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bm4cifobjab
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wzctzgyx1gs

Or > http://bit.ly/btsdQP

Post Some Comments on it people !!!!!

A.R.Rahman Songs Deadly Mix Music Video

2010-03-26T05:52:00.000+06:00

I guess everone have heard the mix earlier ,which was played @ ARR's pune concert

Listen to the audio alone > http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/1247092/754951617/name/DJ

Edited By me
Mix By Deepak P.A

Sorry for the poor quality :-( the Raw file was about 1GB , with my crappy connection i can't upload that much , so encoded into a 25MB version :-( so quality lost during encoding ...

And Please Please Leave a comment !!!

Water Wars again ? Can we turn Bangladesh into a Desert ? - Shekhar Kapur

2010-02-23T08:16:00.001+06:00

Check Out !!!!

Shekhar kapur made a whole new blog post on my Comments on his site !!!!

Feeling superb seeing this !!! a Very Important Issue !! a Very Important Director !! a Very important human being and a Rahmaniac from Bangladesh

Thanks a lot to Shekhar sir for giving attention to this important issue crated by India !

http://bit.ly/dDzC72

A.R.Rahman at 52nd Grammy Awards - Pics - Videos

2010-02-03T04:12:00.002+06:00

Video Courtesy A.R.Rahman Fan Group

For Jai Ho

Pics >

Newspaper Articles

Courtesy - A.R.Rahman Fan Group
Additional Editing By me

A.R.Rahman Wallpaper

2010-01-30T08:46:00.008+06:00

I am Very new in this Blogging world .. So i cant's find a way to show this pics fully on the screen ... I might have to open pics in a new window to download .. or click on it

If anyone can help with this prob .. Please Mail me :-(

Some pics removed because the Original Photographer dont want me to post them here :-(

And yes .. None of these pics Clicked by me.. Copyrights Belongs to the Individual Photographer :-)

Read It To Believe It - Thousands Of Amazing Facts

2009-11-28T00:49:00.002+07:00

I Would Like To Warn Everyone That This Is Going To Be A Huge Post ... Will Take Severals Hours To Read... If U Dont Have That Much Of Time ...To Read This Useless Post ..Please Go Away

The snowiest city in the U.S.A. is blue canyon

California Lake Nicaragua in Nicaragua is the only fresh water lake in the world that has sharks.

Kite flying is a professional sport in Thailand.

The great warrior Genghis khan died in bed while having $ex.

No matter how cold it gets gasoline will not freeze.

SNAILS have 14175 teeth laid along 135 rows on their tongue.

A BUTTERFLY has 12,000 eyes.

DOLPHINS sleep with 1 eye open.

A BLUE WHALE can eat as much as 3 tones of food everyday, but at the same time can live without food for 6 months.

The EARTH has over 12,00,000 species of animals, 3,00,000 species of plants & 1,00,000 other species.

The fierce DINOSAUR was TYRANNOSAURS which has sixty long & sharp teeth, used to attack & eat other dinosaurs.

DEMETRIO was a mammal like REPTILE with a snail on its back. This acted as a radiator to cool the body of the animal.

CASSOWARY is one of the dangerous BIRD, that can kill a man or animal by tearing off with its dagger like claw.

The SWAN has over 25,000 feathers in its body.

Some lions mates over 50 times a day.

American did not commonly use forks until after the civil war.

The most productive day of the week is Tuesday.

In the 1930’s America track star Jesse Owens used to race against horses and dogs to earn a living.

There’s a great mushroom in Oregon that is 2,400 years old. Covers 3.4 square miles of land and is still growing.

Jimmy Carter is the first U.S.A. president to have born in hospital.

Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.

Cleopatra married two of her brothers.

Human birth control pill work on gorillas.

The right lung takes in more air than the left.

It is illegal to own a red car in shanghai china.

A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.

Astronauts cannot burp in space.

People who ride on roller coaters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

Black bears are not always black they can be brown, cinnamon, yellow and sometimes white.

People with blue eyes see better in dark.

Each year 30,000 people are seriously injured by exercise equipment.

The placement of a donkey’s eyes in its head enables it to see all four feet.

The sun is 330330 times larger than the earth.

The cow gives nearly 200000 glass of milk in her lifetime.

There are more female than male millionaires in the U.S.A.

A male baboon can kill a leopard.

When a person dies, hearing is usually the first sense to go.

Bill gates house was designed using Macintosh computer.

Nearly 22,000 cheques will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour.

Almost all varieties of breakfast cereals are made from grass.

A frog can’t empty its stomach by vomiting.

A rat can go without water longer than a camel can.

The lung fish can live out of water for three years in a state of suspended animation.

The bark of an older red wood tree is fire proof.

The average American consumes nine pounds of food additives every year.

7000 new insects species are discovered every year.

The average human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap

Barbie’s fill name is babra Millicent Roberts.

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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

Pearls melt in vinegar

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs... but not downstairs..

Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.

Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.

"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

OSTRICH eats pebbles to help digestion by grinding up the ingested food.

POLAR BEAR can look clumsy & slow but during chase on ice, can reach 25 miles / hr of speed.

KIWIS are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell.

ELEPHANT teeth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.

OWL is the only bird, which can rotate its head to 270 degrees.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

The c!garette lighter was invented before the match.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips ..

A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death ..

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

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

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless ?????? ).

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

American Airlines saved $40,000 in '87 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class.

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola

Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with. It's the same with apples!

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.

Back in the mid to late 80's, an IBM compatible computer wasn't considered a hundred percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft's Flight Simulator game..

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.

During the chariot scene in 'Ben Hur' a small red car can be seen in the distance ..

Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.

Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower' because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

Leonardo Da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan, there was never a recorded Wendy before!

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple and silver!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!

The kissing under the missletoe tradition originated from the Druids.

The kiwi has nostrils near the tip of its bill that allows it to sniff the ground for food.

The Kiwi, national bird of New Zealand, can't fly. It lives in a hole in the ground, is almost blind, and lays only one egg each year. Despite this, it has survived for more than 70 million years.

The Kwoma of New Guinea consider it proper for the girl to make sexual advances rather than the boy in order to help the men avoid upsetting the girl's parents.

The largest amount of money you can have without having change for a dollar is $1.19 (3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies cannot be divided into a dollar).

The largest animal ever seen alive was a 113.5 foot, 170-ton female blue whale.

The largest antique ever sold is the London Bridge. It was sold and moved Lake Havasu City, AZ in 1971.

The largest baseball card collection, 200,000 cards, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The international telephone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.

The internet is NOT FREE, a group of companies actually own the internet.

The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.

The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.

The Kama Sutra was written by Mallanga Vatsyayana, who was rumored to be celibate.

The kangaroo and the emu are shown supporting the shield on Australia's coat of arms.

The kangaroo rat can cover ground at a rate of 17 feet per second. It can leap as much as 18 inches straight up and can switch directions at the peak of its jump.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.

The hummingbird is the only bird that can hover and fly straight up, down, or backward!
The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk
The Hundred Year War actually lasted 116 years (1337 to 1453).

The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green. He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia. He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.

The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralyzed and dead.

The Iditarod Dogsled Race got its name from Iditarod, a small mining village along the race's route.

The race commemorates an emergency operation in 1925 to get medical supplies to Nome, Alaska following a diphtheria epidemic.

The Imperial torte, a square chocolate cake with five thin layers of almond paste, was created by a master pastry chef at the court of Emperor Franz Joseph (1830 1916).

The infamous "Red Baron" was German World War I pilot Manfred von Richthofen.

The infinite sign is called a lemniscate.

The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.

The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of pickles the company once had.

Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

The dot over the letter 'i' is called a "tittle".

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

A duck's quack doesn't echo ... no one knows why.

40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

Every person has a unique tongue print

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor who had red eyes. He was albino.

On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

The largest bell in the world is the Tsar Kolokol in the Kremlin in Moscow. It's 20' 2" high and 21' 8" in diameter. Cast in 1735, it weighs 222.56 tons and has never been wrung...it cracked before it was installed.

The largest bird egg in the world today is that of the ostrich. Ostrich eggs are from 6 to 8 inches long. Because of their size and the thickness of their shells, they take 40 minutes to hard-boil.

The largest body of fresh water in the world is Lake Superior.

The largest cell in the human body is the female ovum, or egg cell. It is about 1/180 inch in diameter. The smallest cell in the human body is the male sperm. It takes about 175,000 sperm cells to weigh as much as a single egg cell.

The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.

The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.

The largest desert in the world, the Sahara, is 3,500,000 square miles.

The largest gold nugget ever found weighed 172 lbs., 13 oz.

The largest Great White Shark ever caught measured 37 feet and weighed 24,000 pounds. It was found in a herring weir in New Brunswick in 1930.

The largest hailstone ever recorded was 17.5 inches in diameter bigger than a basketball.

The largest human organ is the liver, which weighs about 55 ounces in a person weighing 150 pounds. By some definitions, the skin is an organ, in which case skin would be the largest organ at 384 ounces.

The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 200 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap, and enough iron to make one nail.

The human body has over 45 miles of nerves.

The human body has over 600 muscles, 40% of the body's weight.

The human brain is about 85% water.

The human eyes can distinguish about 17,000 different colors.

The human head weighs 7 pounds.

The human heart creates enough pressure in the bloodstream to squirt blood 30 feet.

The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.

Only 30% of stolen artwork worth more than $1,000,000 each is recovered.

The typical American child receives 70 new toys a year, most of them during the holiday season.

90% of Canada's 31,000,000 citizens live within 100 miles of the U.S. border.

The Washington Times newspaper is owned by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

The busiest shopping hour of the holiday season is between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM on Christmas Eve.

In 2002, women earned 742,000 bachelor's degrees. Men earned only 550,000 during the same year. The difference is growing so large that many colleges now practice (quietly) affirmative action for male applicants.

Most of the deck chairs on the Queen Mary 2 have had to be replaced because overweight Americans were breaking them.

Actor Bill Murray doesn't have a publicist or an agent.

The day after President George W. Bush was reelected, Canada's main immigration website had 115,000 visitors. Before Bush's re-election, this site averaged about 20,000 visitors each day.

The entire fleet of Unicoi County Tennessee's salt trucks was rendered out of commission in one accident. All three trucks were badly damaged when one of them began skidding down a road, causing a chain reaction accident. Officials blamed road conditions.

More people study English in China than speak it in the United States of America (300 million).

Fast food provider Hardee's has recently introduced the Monster Thickburger. It has 1,420 calories and 107 grams of fat.

More than 2,500 left-handed people are killed each year from using products that are made for right-handed people.

For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.

There are 2,000,000 millionaires in the United States.

1.5 million Americans are charged with drunk driving each year.

A Georgia company will mix your loved one's ashes with cement and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef.

The time spent deleting SPAM costs United States businesses $21.6 billion annually.

60.7 percent of eligible voters participated in the 2004 presidential election, the highest percentage in 36 years. However, more than 78 million did not vote. This means President Bush won re-election by receiving votes from less than 31% of all eligible voters in the United States.

John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, loved to skinny dip in the Potomac River.

La Paz, Bolivia has an average annual temperature below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. However, it has never recorded a zero-degree temperature. Same for Stanley, Falkland Islands and Punta Arenas, Chile.

41% of Chinese people eat at least once a week at a fast food restaurant. 35% of Americans do.

A Wisconsin forklift operator for a Miller beer distributor was fired when a picture was published in a newspaper showing him drinking a Bud Light.

G-rated family films earn more money than any other rating. Yet only 3% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.

Richard Hatch, winner of the first "Survivor" reality series, has been charged with tax evasion for failing to report his $1,000,000 prize.

A baby bat is called a pup.

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100 .

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.

The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. ( Try It Now : )

It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( Why U R Licking It Now ?? :s .. Very Bad :s )

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

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.

98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.

Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.

The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.

To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.

99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.

The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines. ( Time Running Out Do Hurry )

A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.

The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

Ants can live up to 16 years.

In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.

The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.

Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.

A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.

There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.

The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.

The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.

The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp.

The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.

The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.

Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.

There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.

Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.

Cat's urine glows under a black light .

The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.

It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.

Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.

It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.

Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.

Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.

Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.

Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.

A shrimp's heart is in their head.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.

A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

Ants don't sleep .

Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."

There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.

Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.

A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

Snakes are immune to their own poison.

Large kangaroos can cover more than 30 feet with each jump.

There are 365 steps on the front of U.S.A. capital building one for every day of the year.

grapes explode in the microwave.

The second hand on an authentic Rolex watch does not tick it moves smoothly.

Babies eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.

all the gold ever mined could be moulded in to cube 60 feet high and 60 feet wide.
A snail can sleep for three years.

The bagpipe was first made from the lever of a sheep.

29% of people admit they have intentionally stolen something from a store.

Mexico has more American residents than any other country except the U.S.A.

A full-grown bear can run as faster as a horse.

The U.K. eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.

Linen can absorb up to 20 times its weight in moisture before it feels damp.

Everyday an average person swallows about a quart of mucous.

About 25% of population sneezes when they are exposed to light.

The giant South African earthworm can grow up to 22 feet long and 1 inch thick.

The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall.

From a complete stop. A human is capable of out running a formula 1-racer car for about 30 feet.

An average person spends three years of his\her life in a toilet.

The liquid inside young coconut can be used as substitute for blood plasma.

A drop of ocean water takes more than 1000 years to circulate around the world.

An average human body contains 1mg of uranium 2mg of gold and 1mg of arsenic.

During gold rush in 1849 some people paid as much as $100 for a glass of water.

The normal static electricity shock that zaps your finger when you touch a door knob is between 10,000 to 30,000 volts.

You mostly breathe from only one nostril at a time

Over the course of an average lifetime, a person breathes 591,300,000 times It means 21,600 times a day.

Your lung contains around 300-350 million respiratory units called Alveoli.

We breathe in 13 pint of air every minute.

More than half a litre of water is lost via breathing.

People under 30 take in double the amount of oxygen as those who are 80.

Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, don't worry about running into the earth's core. You'd have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep!

How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals don't eat moss. It's hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing—much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter

A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up.

A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast!

The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour).

a cheetah does not roar like a lion - it purrs like a cat (meow).

Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES

The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby'!

A Zipper joins two pieces of material together. A zipper is used everywhere, on clothing, pencil cases, boots and suitcases, wallets, and a zillion other things. Everyone thinks it was Whitcomb Judson who invented the zipper but it was really Elias Howe. Elias was so busy inventing the sewing machine that he didn't get around to selling his zipper invention which he called a "clothing closure".

The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.

Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)
No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.

There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.
Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

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

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. ( Try It To Fail )

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

Yo-Yo were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "s ub c ont in ent al".

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

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That the Sun makes up 99.86% of the Solar System's mass! That means that all the planets put together (including Jupiter) as well as all the asteroids only make up about 0.14% of the Solar System's mass

That Jupiter's magnetic field is so massive that it pours billions of Watts into Earths magnetic field every day!

That a massive body 100km wide travelling at over 512,000km/h crashed into Mercury to form the Caloris Basin. The impact was so great it sent shockwaves round Mercury creating its hilly lineated terrain.

That just a pinhead of the Sun's raw material could kill someone up to 160 kilometres away!

That the length of a Plutonian year is 248 of our years! That means that one orbit of the Sun takes about 2 and a half Earth centuries. That's a quarter of a Millennium!

That Olympus Mons (on Mars) is the largest Volcanic mountain in the Solar System. It is 600 km across and 27 km high! And you thought Mount Everest (about 8 and a half km high) was tall! To see a great overhead picture of it click here.

That a Supernova explosion produces more energy in its first ten seconds than the Sun during the whole of its 10 billion year lifetime and that for a brief period, it creates more energy than the rest of a galaxy put together!!

That the comet with the longest ever recorded tail is the Great Comet of 1843. Its tail stretched over 800 million kilometres! This is about the same distance the Earth is from Jupiter!

That the energy in the sunlight we see today started out in the core of the Sun 30,000 years ago - it spent most of this time passing through the dense atoms that make the sun and just 8 minutes to reach us once it had left the Sun!

That almost all of the heavier elements in your body (e.g.: calcium, iron, carbon) were made somewhere in supernovae explosions!

That some rocks found on Earth are actually pieces of Mars!

That Saturn has such a low density that it would float if put in water!

That due to the fact that water expands when heated, the Atlantic ocean increases in width by 3cm every year!

That some volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io eject material at speeds of up to 1km/second! This is about 20 times faster than the volcanoes here on Earth can manage it!

That the amount of the Sun's energy reaching the Earth's atmosphere (known as the Solar constant) is equivalent to 1.37 kw of electricity per square metre!

Know more about the World & the Earth

1- Earth is the only planet on which water can exist in liquid form on the surface.

2- Antarctica is the highest, driest, and coldest continent on Earth.

3- The dormant volcano Mauna Kea (on the Big Island of Hawaii) could be considered the tallest mountain in the world. If you measure it from its base in the Hawaiian Trough (3,300 fathoms deep) to its summit of 13,796 feet, it reaches a height of 33,476 feet.

4- Earth is referred to as the BLUE PLANET. WHY? Because from space, the oceans combined with our atmosphere make our planet look blue.

5- The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1557 in central China, more than 830,000 people were killed.

6- The World’s largest hot desert is the Sahara in North Africa, at over 9,000,000 km², it is almost as large as the United States.

7- Earth travels through space at 66,700 miles per hour.

8- Mount Everest 8850 meter (29035 ft) Nepal/China is the tallest mountain.

9- The sunrays reached at the earth in 8 minutes & 3 seconds.

10- Only 11 percent of the earth's surface is used to grow food.

11- The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.

12- About 70% of the world’s fresh water is stored as glacial ice.

13- Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.

14-The warmest sea in the world is the Red Sea, where temperatures range from 68 degrees to 87.8 degrees F depending upon which part you measure.

15- The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C)

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

17- Asia Continent is covered 30% of the total earth land area, but represent 60% of the world’s population.

18-The total surface area of the Earth is 197 million square miles.

19- El Azizia in Libya recorded a temperature of 136 degrees Fahrenheit (57.8 Celsius) on Sept. 13, 1922 - the hottest ever measured.

20- A 1960 Chilean earthquake was the strongest earthquake in recent times, which occurred off the coast, had a magnitude of 9.6 and broke a fault more than 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) long.

21- The lowest dry point on earth is the Dead Sea in the Middle East is about 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level.

22- The Largest Ocean of the World is the Pacific Ocean (155,557,000 sq km), It covers nearly one-third of the Earth's surface.

23- The distance from the surface of Earth to the center is about 3,963 miles (6,378 kilometers).

24- The saltiest sea in the world is the Red Sea with 41 parts of salt per 1,000 parts of water.

25- The Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall (979 meters / 3212 ft.), three times the size of the Eiffel Tower.

26- The Earth is the densest major body in the solar system.

27- The age of the earth is Loudly proclaimed by the scientific establishment of evolution believers and the mass media as being around 4.6 billion years old.

28- Baikal Lake in Russian Fed. is the deepest lake (5315 ft) in the world.

29- Lightning does not always create thunder. In April 1885, five lightning bolts struck the Washington Monument during a thunderstorm, yet no thunder was heard.

30- The Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia is the largest cave in the world is 2300 feet (701 meters) long, 1300 feet (400 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.

31- The Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii is the largest volcano on Earth. It rises more than 50,000 feet (9.5 miles or 15.2 kilometers) above its base, which sits under the surface of the sea.

32- Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.

33- One-tenth of the Earth's surface is always under the cover of ice. And almost 90 per cent of that ice is to be found in the continent of Antarctica.

34- The coldest seas are found near the poles such as the Greenland, Barents, Beaufort, Kara, Laptev & East Siberian Seas found near the north pole & Weddell & Ross Seas found in the south poles. The Baltic Sea is also considered one of the coldest seas.

35- The Nile River in Africa is the longest river (6,825 kilometers) of the earth.

36-Caspian Sea, Asia-Europe is the major lake (371,000 sq km) in the world.

37- Depending upon the amount of salt in the water, sea water freezes at about 28 degrees F.

38- The most dangerous animal in the world is the common housefly. Because of their habits of visiting animal waste, they transmit more diseases than any other animal.

39- The Peregrine Falcon around 200mph (320 km/h) is the fastest bird on the planet, the top speed recorded is 242.3mph (390 km/h).

40- The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.

41-The deepest hole ever made by humans is in Kola Peninsula in Russia, was completed in 1989, creating a hole 12,262 meters (7.6 miles) deep.

42- Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born/woman.

43- An African woman's lifetime risk of dying from pregnancy related causes is one in 16, in Asia, its one in 65. In Europe, its one in 1,400.

44- There are roughly 4,000 known minerals, although only about 200 are of major importance.

45- About 400 billion gallons water is used worldwide each day.

46- Aluminum cans take 500 years to break down.

47- Total fertility rate of the world is 2.59 children born/woman. Niger is 7.46 (highest), India is 2.73, US is 2.09 & Hong Kong is 0.95 only (Lowest).

48- Northern Mariana Islands is only the country where death rate (2.29/1000) is lowest in the world.

49- Earth's oceans are an average of 2 Miles deep

50- Shanghai, China is the largest city by population (13.3 million) in the world.

51- English is the second most spoken language (Native speakers 512 million) & the first is Chinese Mandarin (more then 1 billion speakers).

52- The flower with the world's largest bloom is the Rafflesia arnoldii. This rare flower is found in the rainforests of Indonesia. It can grow to be 3 feet across and weigh up to 15 pounds.

53- At least 1,000 million grams, or roughly 1,000 tons of material (dust) enters the atmosphere every year and makes its way to Earths surface.

54- The gravity on Mars is 38% of that found on Earth. So a 100 pounds person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.

55- The world’s population has been increased 3.1 billion in last 40 years.

56- Global Positioning System (GPS) is the only system today that can show your exact position on the Earth anytime, in any weather, no matter where you are!

57- The water that falls on a single acre of land during one inch of rainfall, it would weigh 113 tons that is 226,000 pounds.

58- 180 million nos. of Valentine’s Day cards exchanged annually, making Valentine’s Day the second-most popular greeting-card-giving occasion.

59- Plastics take 500 years to break down.

60- Each year, more than 500,000 women (approximate 1 every minute) die from pregnancy related causes. The vast majority of these deaths occur in developing countries.
Some Interesting Computer Facts!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8).Tetris has sold over 40 million copies worldwide, since it began in 1982.That provided the creator 800 million in revenues.

9).The superflop sega dreamcast, released in 1999, was the first console game machine to sport a 128 Bit architecture.

10).The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue" for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.

11).The QWERTY keyboard layout is 129 years old.

12).South Korea's SK telecom offers an inaudible ring tone to its customers which, it claims, can repel mosquitoes.

13).In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in India.

14).Macquariums are aquariums made from old macintosh computers.

15).The servers are in Denmark.The software is from Estonia.The domain is registered in Australia & the corporation is in south pacific island.That was Kazaa, the p2p software.

16).Bill gates & Paul Allen started a company called Traf-O-Data to monitor traffic flow.

17).The four largest software makers in the world are:-

(a) Microsoft
(b) Adobe
(c) Sap
(d) Computer Associates.

(18)Top Ten Supercomputers of Today:-

Arranged according to the speed:-

1. Bluegene/L DD2 Beta-system(IBM).

2. Columbia (NASA).

3. Earth Simulator (NEC).

4. MareNostrum (Barcelona Supercomputer Center).

5. Thunder (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).

6. ASCI Q (Los Alamos National Laboratory).

7. System X (Virgina Tech).

8. Blugene/L DD1 Prototype(IBM).

9. eServer pSeries 655 cluster (Naval Oceanographic Office).

10. Tungsten (National Center For Supercomputing Applications).

19). According to university of California 1,693,000 terabytes of information are
produced & stored magnetically per year.

20).Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of
about 100,000 tracks/inch.This means that tracks are spaced 10 millionths
of an inch apart.

21).One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of
documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empire
state building.

22. The 4004 was the first microprocessor of Intel.

23. The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the
record for the max. no. transistors on a chip.

24. James Gosling created java at Sun Microsystems. He came up with the
name Java while debating over it at a coffee shop.

25. The first ISP was Compuserve, established in 1969 which is now under
AOL.

26. The Palm O.S fits in less than 100 K,which is less than one percent the size
of Windows 98 or Mac O.S.

27. What does 50 G.B of storage really mean? It means we can stack 3 piles of
single spaced type written pages taller than the Eiffel tower and data to
support this information is about 50 gigabytes.

28. The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM PC was :-
'The dirty dozen'.

29. When the CD was invented, it was decided that a CD should be long
enough to hold Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at any tempo which was
precisely 72 minutes.

30)128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it. Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.

31)Bill Gates' math SAT score was a perfect 800.

32)Bill Gates' home was designed using a Mac!

33)Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:-

A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.
A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.
A particle of smog is 100 microinches.
A human hair is 4000 microinches.

34)When Windows 3.1 was launched, 3 million copies were sold in the first two
months.

35)Windows 95 can run on 386DX at 20 Megahertz, with just 4 M.B of RAM.

36)David Bradley wrote the code for [Ctr]+[Alt]+[Delete] key sequence.

1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

3. Almonds are members of the peach family.

4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

9. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.

12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapiki maungahoronukup okaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.

14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

21. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

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

A cat can run about 20 kilometres per hour (12 miles per hour) when it grows up. This one is going nowhere today - it is too lazy !.

A cheetah can run 76 kilometres per hour (46 miles per hour) - that's really fast! The fastest human beings runs only about 30 kilometres per hour (18 miles per hour.

Did you know Sailor, Dead Leaf, Paper Kite, Blue Striped Crow, Julia and Great Egg Fly are all names of BUTTERFLIES

Bears whose brown fur is tipped with lighter-colored hairs are called grizzly bears . The smallest species of bears is called sun or Malayan bears. Male bears are called boars. Bears are native to the continents of North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. Alaskan brown bears, world's largest meat-eating animals that live on land, can weigh as much as 1,700 pounds (771 kilograms)

The largest frog in the world is called Goliath frog. Frogs start their lives as 'eggs' often laid in or near fresh water. Frogs live on all continents except Antarctica. Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike. Zebras enemies include hyenas, wild dogs, and lions. Male zebras are called stallions. Zebras usually travel in herds.

There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos. Kangaroos are native of Australia. A group of kangaroos is called a mob. Young kangaroos are called joeys.

How do reindeers survive in the extreme cold? Most animals don’t eat moss. It’s hard to digest, and it has little nutritional value. But reindeer fill up with lots of moss. Why? The moss contains a special chemical that helps reindeer keep their body fluids warm. When the reindeer make their yearly journey across the icy Arctic region, the chemical keeps them from freezing—much as antifreeze keeps a car from freezing up in winter

Some scientists believe that the earth began billions of years ago as a huge ball of swirling dust and gases. If you dig in your backyard, don’t worry about running into the earth’s core. You’d have to dig a hole 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometers) deep

Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!

-A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

-A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

-A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.

-About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.

-A typical bed usually houses over 6 billion dust mites.

-A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet

-A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

-A zebra is white with black stripes.

- Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling. Porpoises and dolphins are mammals. There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Most porpoises and dolphins navigate by using "echolocation". The largest member of the dolphin family is called an orca or killer whale.

- The hippopotamus gives birth under water and nurses its young in the river as well, though the young hippos do come up periodically for air.

-A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime

The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

-- How the wind blows. As the sun warms the earth’s surface, the atmosphere warms too. Some parts of the earth receive direct rays from the sun all year and are always warm. Other places receive indirect rays, so the climate is colder. Warm air, which weighs less than cool air, rises. Then cool air moves in and replaces the rising warm air. This movement of air is what makes the wind blow.

- Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

--Why do we might feel warmer wearing a dark-colored jacket than a light-colored one? . Dark colors absorb light energy. Light colors and white reflect light energy. When light shines on your dark jacket, the jacket fabric absorbs light energy. The absorbed light energy causes electrons in the atoms of the jacket to vibrate. This activity releases heat energy, which makes the jacket—and you—warmer. That's why we like to wear more dark colors in winter and more light colors in summer.

-While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.

-At 188 decibels, the whistle of the blue whale is the loudest sound produced by any animal.

--A flute made of bone is the oldest playable musical instrument in the world. It’s a flute carved from a bird’s wing bone more than 9,000 years ago. The flute was discovered with other flutes at an ancient burial site in China.

- The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of upto 41.7 miles per hour. The breed was known to exist in ancient Egypt 6,000 years ago

-- Glue dates back to prehistoric times. Artists once mixed colorings with raw eggs, dried blood, and plant juices to make sticky paints for cave murals. Later, ancient Egyptians and other people learned to make stronger glues by boiling animal bones and hides. Today companies make glues using synthetic substances.

-A cat sees about six times better than a human at night because of the tapetum lucidum , a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.

-A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.

-A cat will clean itself with paw and tongue after a dangerous experience or when it has fought with another cat. This is an attempt by the animal to soothe its nerves by doing something natural and instinctive.

-The grizzly bear can run as fast as the average horse!!

- The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest. !!

- A jellyfish is 95 percent water!

- At birth, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs about four ounces.

-Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

-You blink over 10,000,000 times a year!

- Of all the words in the English language, the word ' set ' has the most definitions!

- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!-

- Dogs and cats, like humans, are either right or left handed... or is that paws?!

- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

- A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

-A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

-More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.

- "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.

- No word in the English language rhymes with "month".

- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

-An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.

- All polar bears are left handed.

-Ants don't sleep.

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