FACTS N FUN!!

Tech Facts!!

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*160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.

*Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

*9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.

*Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

*A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.

*There are some 1 billion computers in use.

*There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.

*There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.

*The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.

*Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.

*Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.

*Facebook has 500 million registered users… about 100 million less than QQ.

*About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, 450 million of them speak English. See list of Internet languages.

*Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).

*One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.

*Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.

*The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.

*Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

*The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

*The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.

*About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.

*24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

*People view 15 billion videos online every month.

*On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each.

*Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.

30 TO GO!!!ENGINEERING

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*220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year.

* A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

*According to Moore's Law, microchips double in power every 18 to 24 months.

*Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.

*Although the famous first flight at Kitty Hawk took place on December 17, 1903, the secretive Wright Brothers did not demonstrate the technology to the broader public until August 8, 1908.

*As of early 2009, there have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981.

*Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

*Chuck Yeager blasted through the sound barrier at Edwards Air Force Base in 1947.

*Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, the phenomenon by which electrons are knocked out of matter by electromagnetic radiation such as light.

*In 1901, the Spanish engineer Leonar do Torres-Quevedo was responsible for the earliest developments in the remote control with his Telekine that was able to do "mechanical movements at a distance."

*In their Miyagi, Japan laboratories, beginning in 1924, Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and his assistant, Shintaro Uda, designed and constructed a sensitive and highly-directional antenna using closely-coupled parasitic elements. The antenna, which is effective in the higher-frequency ranges, has been important for radar, television, and amateur radio.

*Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science

*No one has received more U.S. patents than Thomas Edison – 1,093 to be exact.

*On 11 July 1962, France received the first transatlantic transmission of a TV signal from a twin station in Andover, Maine, USA via the TELSTAR satellite.

*On 9 June 1906 the Winnipeg Electric Railway Co. transmitted electric power from the Pinawa generating station on the Winnipeg River to the city of Winnipeg at 60,000 volts. It was the first year-round hydroelectric plant in Manitoba and one of the first to be developed in such a cold climate anywhere in the world.

*On December 12, 1901, a radio transmission of the Morse code letter 'S' was broadcast from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, using equipment built by John Ambrose Fleming.

*One third of the world population has never made a telephone call.

*Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Morse code, was a painter as well. One of his portraits is of the first governor of Arkansas and hangs in the governor’s mansion of that state.

*Telecommunications satellites, and other satellites that need to maintain their position above a specific place on the earth, must orbit at 35,786 kilometers and travel in the same direction as the earth's rotation.

*The circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles. Its surface area is about 200,000,000 square miles and it weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

*The Ericsson Company first produced cellular phones in 1979.

*The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

*The first Japanese-language word processor was developed in Tokyo between 1971 and 1978.

*The first laser was made in California in 1960.

*The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980.

*The Internet is the fastest-growing communications tool ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just 4 years.

*There have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981.

*Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

*U.S. President Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

*Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish engineer, invented an arc converter as a generator of continuous-wave radio signals in 1902.

Endless Facts :)

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*French artist, Michel Vienkot, uses cow dung as paint when he creates his pictures

*Canada is an Indian word meaning “village” or “settlement.”

*There are 122 pebbles per square inch on a Spalding basketball

*The seventeenth president of the United States, Andrew Johnson did not know how to read until he was 17 years old

*The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair

*Bhutan issued a stamp in 1973 that looked like a record and actually would play the Bhutanese national anthem if placed on a record player

*Asparagus comes in three colors: green, white and purple

*Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, JohnHancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn’t added until 5 years later.

*A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.

*Pancakes are served for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Australia

*A lion feeds once every three to four days

*A honey bee has four wings

*Chedder cheese is the best selling cheese in the USA

*In the movie “The Matrix Reloaded” a 17 minute battle scene cost over $40 million to produce

*According to research, Los Angeles highways are so congested that the average commuter sits in traffic for 82 hours a year

FactMania!!!!!!!

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*Over one million Pet Rocks were sold in 1975, makine Gary Dahl, of Los Gatos, California, a millionaire. He got the idea while joking with friends about his pet that was easy to take care of, which was a rock

*First novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer

*Because metal was scarce; the Oscars given out during World War II were made of plaster

*The head of a jellyfish is called the “Bell.”

*The game Monopoly has been played by approximately 500 million people in the world, and the game is available in 26 languages

*The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years

*In 1983, a Japanese artist, Tadahiko Ogawa, made a copy of the Mona Lisa completely out of ordinary toast

*Average number of days a West German goes without washing his underwear: 7

*Cotton crops can be sprayed up to 40 times a year making it the most chemical-intensive crop in the world

*The “Star Spangled Banner” did not become a national anthem until 1931. It was designated by an Act of Congress

*Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer

*On average, the American household consumes six pounds of peanut butter annually

*A housefly can only ingest liquid material. They regurgitate their food to liquify the food that they are going to eat

*Bugs Bunny was originally called “Happy Rabbit.”

*In 1685, New France used playing cards as currency because of the shortage of coins

APRIL FOOL DAY.

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*It is widely proclaimed that April Fool’s Day originated in France in 1562, or thereabouts, when Pope Gregory replaced the Julian calender with the Gregorian calender in the Julian calender month of April. The day of introduction of the Gregorian calender was made the first day of January. Some people hadn’t heard about the change in the date, so they continued to celebrate the New Year’s Day, but it being 1st April. So, others called them “April fools.” The fact is that Pope Gregory XIII ordered Thursday 4 October 1582 to be the last day of the Julian calendar. The next day was Friday 15 October. April Fool’s Day is an April Fool’s tale.

*The April Fool’s Day tradition in France includes poisson d’avril (“April’s fish”), attempting to attach a paper fish to the victim’s back without being noticed.

“April 1st: This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four.” – Mark Twain

BICYCLE RIDING!!

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*There are about a billion bicycles in the world, twice as many as motorcars. Almost 400 million bicycles are in China. Every year some 50 million bicycles – and 20 million cars – are produced.

*Although Leonardo da Vinci drew some rough sketches of a contraption that looked like a bicycle, the Frenchman De Sivrac built the first bicycle-type vehicle in 10690. It was referred to as a hobbyhorse. However, it did not have pedals. Those were added in 1840 by a Scottish blacksmith, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, who is credited with inventing the real bicycle.

*On a penny-farthing bicycle, one pedal gave the wheel one turn. A lot of pedaling was needed to get around! With the advent of gears, bicycles could move as fast as cars.

*Air-filled tyres were used on bicycles before they were used on motorcars.

*The bicycle as we know it today – with two wheels of the same size – looks almost exactly the same as one from 1900.

*The first five-seat bicycle, the quindem, was built in 1940.

Liquidize 2!!

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In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

Mr. Rogers is an ordained minister.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball.

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

In Greene, new york, you cannot walk backwards and eat peanuts on teh sidewalk during a concert.

In Hardford, Connecut, you may not, under any circumstances, cross the street walking on your hands.

In ancient Egypt, killing a cat was a crime punishable by death.

In ancient Greece, where the mouse was sacred to Apollo, mice were sometimes devoured by temple priests.

In Bangladesh, kids as young as 15 cam be jailed for cheating on their finals.

In Calama, a town in the Atacama Desert of Chile, it has never rained.

In Casablanka, humphrey Bogart never said Play it again, Sam.

In eighteenth century England, women's wigs were sometimes 4 feet high. These remarkable headdresses were dusted with flour and decorated with stuffed birds, replicas of gardens, plates of fruit, or even model ships.

In eighteenth century English gambling dens, there was an empolyee whose only job was to swallow the dice if there was a police raid.

In England, in the 1800's pants was considered a dirty word.

In 1976 a Los Angeles secretary named Jannene Swift officially married a 50 pound rock. The ceremony was witnessed by more than 20 people.

In 1976 Rodrigo's Guitar Concierto de Aranjuez' was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.

In 1990 there were about 15,000 vacuum cleaner related accidents in the US

In the 19th century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The Keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday, she was named HMS Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to sea on a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew were ever heard of again.

In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'

In the Balanta tribe of Africa, a bride remained married until her wedding gown was worn out. If she wanted a divorce after 2 weeks, all she had to do was rip up her dress.

In the country of Turkey, in the 16th and 17th centuries, anyone caught drinking coffee was put to death.

IN the flim 'Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting Earth, Australia and Papa New Guinea are clearly visible .. But new Zealand is missing.

In the great fire of London in 1666 half of London was burnt down but only 6 people were injured.

In the heart of the Antarctic winter, temperatures drop to as low as 127 degrees Fahrenheit. In the Marriage ceremony of the ancient Inca Indians of Peru, the Couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.

In the middle Ages, the highest court in France ordered the execution of a cow for injuring a human.

In the past 100 years only 12 people have been attacked by mountain lions in the state of California. Five died and two of those were because of rabies in 1909

In the United States there is one birth every 8 seconds and one death every 14 seconds.

In the White House, there are 13,092 Knives, forks, and spoons.

In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.

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

In Vermont, USA, it is illegal for women to wear false teeth without the written permission of their husbands.

Ireland is the only place where windmills turn clockwise.

Irving Berlin, who was born on 11 May 1888 and who composed three thousand songs in his lifetime, couldn't read music.

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey decimal category.

It costs $6,400 to raise a medium size dog to age eleven.

ï»¿It costs more to buy a new car today in the United States than it cost Christopher Columbus to equipt and undertake three voyages to and from the New World.

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them.

It is illegal to be a prostitute in Siena, Italy, if your name is Mary.

It is illegal to hunt camels in the state of Arizona.

It is illegal to own a dog in Reykjavik.

It is illegal to swim in central park.

It is possible to lead a cow up stairs but not downstairs.

It take 8.5 minutes for light to get from the sun to the earth.

It takes a yard of sugarcane to make one sugar cube.

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

it takes more than 500 peanuts to make one 12 ounce jar of peanut butter.

It take the insect eating Venus Flytrap plant only half a second to shut its trap on prey.

It took engineers 22 years to design the zipper.

It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls with out human faces.

It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.

It is against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Omaha, Nebraska

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

It's against the law to slam your car door in Switzerland.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

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

J.S.Bach had 20 children, 7 with his first wife and 13 with his second.

Jacques Cousteau invented scuba gear while in the French resistance during World War II

James Buchanan was the only unmarried president of the US

James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.

Jaw muscles can provide about 200 pounds of force to being the back teeth together for chewing.

Jean Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original Predator in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.

Jet lag was once called boat lag, beck before jets existed.

Jimmy Carter is a speed reader (2000 wpm).

Jimmy Carter was the first US president to have been born in a hospital.

John Cage composed 'Imaginary Landscaper No.4', which was scored for twelve radios tuned at random.

John has a long moustache was the coded signal used by the French Resistance in WWII

John Larroquette of Night Court And the John Larroquette Show was the narrator of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and was found in a warehouse. Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and was found in a theatre.

John Wilkes Booth's brother once saved the life of Abraham Lincoln's son.

Judy Jetson is a Libra.

June Foray, the voice of Talking Tina from the classic Twilight Zone episode Living Doll, was also the voice of Rocky the talking squirrel from Rocky & Bullwinkle.

Just twenty seconds' worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

Kathleen Turner was the voice of Jessica Rabbit, and Amy Irving was her singing voice.

Kemo Sabe, the name Tonto called The Lone Ranger means Soggy Shrub in Navajo Indian.

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

Killer whales have such a good sense of touch that if you dropped a pill into a bucket and feed it to the orca it would eat the fish and spit out the pill.

King Kong in the only movie to have its sequel (Son of Kong) relaced the same year (1933)

Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks.

Knitted socks discovered in Ancient Egyptian tombs have been dated back as far as the 3rd century AD.

Kotex was first manufactured as bandages, during WWI

Lady Astor once told Winston Churchill 'if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee'. His reply 'if you were my wife, I would drink it'

Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.9 seconds in 1969, there by setting a new world's record for runners in the 100 years or older class. He was 101.

Lawsuits riled be California inmates cost the taxpayers more than 25 million in 1994.

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

Lemon sharks grow a new set of teeth every two weeks! They grow more than 24,000 new teeth every year!

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

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors, played the viola, and spent twelve years painting the Mona Lisa's lips.

Less than 1% of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited.

Less than 7% of the population donates blood.

Less than 2% of the water on Earth is fresh.

Li is the family name for over 87 million People in China.

Lightning strikes the earth about 6,000 times per minute on this planet.

Lincoln Logs were invented by Frank Lloyd Wright's son.

Liquid paper was invented by Mike Nesmith's (of the Monkees) mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, in 1951.

Lobsters have blue blood.

Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of Lorne Green's Wild Kingdom.

Los Angeles's full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, LA

Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time.

Liquidize !!

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A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

A elephant is the heavest of all land mammals at around 8,000 pounds.

A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.

A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away.

A man had the hiccups for 69 years.

A millipede has 4 legs on each segment of it's body.

A mole can dig over 250 feet of tunnel in a single night.

A monkey was once tride and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend,Indiana.

A noisy resturant is 100,000 times as lound as a watch ticking. Rock Consert 1,000,000,000 times as loud. Loud headphones 10,000,000,000. Shotgun blast 1,000,000,000,000

A peanut is neither a pea nor a nut.

A person at rest generates as much heat as a 100watt lightbulb

A group of owls is called a parliament.

A Penny whistle has six finger holes.

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

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

A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.

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

A rat can last longer with out water than a camel.

A rhinoceros' horn is made of compacted hair.

A rodents teeth never stop growing. They are worn down by the animal's constant gnawing on bark, leaves, and other vegetables.

A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee

A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week

A silicon chip a quarter inch square has the capacity of the orignal 1949 ENIAC computer, which occupied a city block.

A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off 28,000 gallons of moisture.

A snail can have about 25,000 teeth

A group of toads is called a knot.

About 3,500 gallons if water is needed to produce one pound of beef.

About 300 million cells die in your body every minute.

About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were thirty.

About 70% of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.

About 85% of the plant life on the Earth is in the ocean.

About a third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.

A group of rhinos is called a crash.

A species of earthworm in Australia grows up to 10 feet in length.

A starfish can turn its self inside out.

A ten gallon hat holds three quarters of a gallon.

A toothpick is the object most often chocked on by Americans.

A Walla Walla scene is one where extras pretend to be talking in the background when they say walla walla it looks like they are actually talking.

A whales heart beats only nine times a minute.

A woodchuck breathers only ten times during hibernation.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

Anteaters prefers termites to ants.

Ants stretch before they wake up. They also appear to yawn in a very human manner before taking up the tasks of the day.

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.

Albert Brooks's real name is Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952.

Alexander the Great was an epileptic.

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

All 17 children of Queen Anne dies before she did.

All totalled, the sunlight that strikes Earth at any given moment weighs as much as a large ocean liner.

A group of Unicorns is called a blessing.

According to Genesis 7:2, God told Noah to take 14 of each kind of 'clean' animal in to the ark.

Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard.

After eating, a housefly regurgitates is food and then eats it again.

Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.

Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his cap to keep him cool. He changed it every 2 innings.

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day.

Canada has more lakes that the rest of the world combined.

Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

Catgut comes from sheep not cats.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about 10.

A group of whales is called a pod.

Abraham Lincoln was the only US president ever granted a patent.

According to Genesis 1:2022 the chicken came before the egg.

Children grow more in the springtime.

Chopsuey is not a native Chinese dish, it was crafted in California by Chinese immigrants.

Chrysler built B29's that bombed Japan. Mitsubishi built the Zeros that tried to shoot them down. Both companies now build cars in a joint plant called Diamond Star.

Due to gravitational effects, you weigh slightly less when the moon is directly over head.

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

During a life time, one person generates more than 1000 pounds of red blood cells.

At age 16 Confucius was a corn inspector.

Armored knights raised their visors to themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.

Assuming you could walk to the sun it would take about 2000 years.

If the Earth was smooth, the ocean would cover the entire surface to a depth of 12 000 feet.

If you are chased by a crocodile, run zigzag, a crocodile is not good at making sharp turns.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.

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

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.

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

Los Angeles' full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula"

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10.

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life."

A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The giant squid has the largest eyes in the world.

WORLD CRICKET AMAZING FACTS

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* In 1868, when Australia first toured England under Charles Lawrence to play cricket, each player was wearing a different coloured cap so that the spectators could identify them.

* The only man to score two test triple centuries is Brian Lara. He scored 375 runs playing against England in 1994. In 2004, Mathew Hayden of Australia broke Lara's world record with 380 against Zimbabwe in Perth 2003. Lara reclaimed the record with a massive 400 not out against England in Antigua 2004.

* The first Test match began on 15 March 1877 and had a timeless format with four balls per over. It ended on 19 March 1877 with Australia winning by 45 runs.

* England’s Alfred Shaw was the bowler to bowl the first delivery in a Test match. He took 3 wickets in the first innings and 5 in the second.

* England’s Allen Hill had both the first Test wicket and the first catch. He dismissed Nat Thomson for 1.

* Australia’s Charles Bannerman faced the first delivery in a Test match and he also went on to be the first Test centurion.

* Charles Bannerman scored 165 in his first Test innings and was retired hurt. Incidentally, he did not take field. W.Newing fielded for him, thus becoming the first substitute fielder in Test cricket.

* Australia’s W E Midwinter became the first bowler to get a 5 wicket haul in a Test innings. He dismissed 5 English batsmen in his 54 over spell in the first Test ever played.

* C A Reid and R B Terry were the two on-field officials or umpires for the first ever Test match in the history of cricket.

* Noone has completed an innings at the score of 228!

* South Africans were the first to introduce TV run outs!

* Graham Yallop, in 1978 was the first man to wear a helmet!
* Wasim Akram is the first (an only?) man to perform a hat-trick in both one days and tests!

* England and Australia played the first ever one day international at Melbourne in 1971!

* Sachin Tendulkar was the first victim of the third umpire in a Test match.

* Hollywood actor Russell Crowe is Martin Crowe's cousin!

* Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won four successive Man of the Match awards in One-day Internationals.

* The first Twenty20 international was between Australia and New Zealand in 2005.

* The Test match between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939 was finally abandoned as a draw on the tenth day because England players had to catch their ship home.

* The First Test between Young Sri Lanka and Young England at Columbo in 1987 was held up when a large iguana crept across the wicket.

* Pakistan Railways beat Dera Ismail Khan by an innings and 851 runs in 1964. In reply to the railwaymens 910 for 6 declared, Dera Ismail Khan were bowled out for 32 and 27.

* Mohammed Azharruddin is the only player in the history of Test cricket to score a century in each of his first three tests.

* India is the only international team to be dismissed twice in a single day of test match cricket. They were dismissed for 58 and 82 against England in 1952.

* M.L.Jaisimha of India was the first batsman to bat on all five days of a Test.

* India had to wait for a period of 19 years & 230 days before registering its first victory.

* The legendary captain of the West Indies, Clive Lloyd was the first captain to win 25 Test Matches.

* Narendra Hirwani took 16 wickets on his debut versus West Indies.

* Allen Hill was the first player to hold a catch in Test cricket.

* Sunil Gavaskar has featured in a record 52 century partnerships.

* Greg Chappell hit a century both on his debut and his final match.

First Happens Facts!!!

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* Persians first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century Macedonians were the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter celebrations. Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of coloring eggs, and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other warm weather holidays.

* An American cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field. Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.

* The greatest snow fall ever in a single storm was 189 inches at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl in February, 1959.

* The 1st feature-length animated film, released by Disney Studios in 1937, was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

* The town of Tidikelt in the Share Desert once went ten years without rainfall.

* The record for the biggest one day rainfall was set on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, on March 15, 1952, where 74 inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

* The word "earthling" was first found in print in 1593.

* The first man-made object to circle the earth was Sputnik I, launched in 1957.

* The coldest outdoor temperature ever recorded on earth was 127 below zero in Antarctica on August 24, 1960.

* Even when all the molecules in a single breath of air have been dispersed evenly in the earth's atmosphere, there will still be one or two of the same ones taken into the lungs with every subsequent breath. Every time you breathe in, you inhale one or two of the same molecules that you inhaled with the first breath you took as a baby.

* An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 sent the Mississippi River backwards.

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

* The first footprints at Grumman’s Chinese Theater (now Mann's Chinese Theater), were made by Norma Tallmadge in 1927. Legend has it that she accidentally stepped in wet concrete outside the building. Since then, over 180 stars have been immortalized, along with their hands and feet and even noses (Jimmy Durant).

* The Beatles were depicted in wax at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in London, in 1964, the first pop album stars to be honored.

Birds Facts!!!

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* Wild turkeys can run at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.

* Benjamin Franklin wanted the national bird to be a turkey.

* A spooked turkey can run at speeds up to 20 miles per hour. They can also burst into flight approaching speeds between 50-55 mph in a matter of seconds. So close, yet so far

* A wild turkey has excellent vision and hearing. Their field of vision is about 270 degrees. This is the main reason they continue to elude some hunters.

* Gobbling starts before sunrise and can continue through most of the morning.

DREAMZZZZZZZ!!!!

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1. You Forget 90% of Your Dreams Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

2. Blind People also Dream People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion.

3. Everybody Dreams Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder). If you think, you are not dreaming, you just forget your dreams.

4. In Our Dreams We Only See Faces, That We already Know Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

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

INDIA INDIA INDIA!!!!!!

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* India is the world's largest, oldest, continuous civilization.

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

* India is the world's largest democracy.

* Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

* Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software - a report in Forbes magazine, July 1987.

* Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.

* Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth.

* The art of Navigation was bornin the river Sindhu 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.

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

* Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipment were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.

* When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).

* The four religions born in India, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population.

* The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

* India is one of the few countries in the World, which gained independence without violence.

* India has the second largest pool of Scientists and Engineers in the World.

* India is the largest English speaking nation in the world.

* India is the only country other than US and Japan, to have built a super computer indigenously.

MATHEMATICS AGAIN!!

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1) π=3.14159 26535 89793 23846 26433 83279 50288 41971 69399 37510 58209 74944 59230 78164 06286 20899 86280 34825 34211 70679 82148 08651 32823 ...

2) A sphere has two sides. However, there are one-sided surfaces.

3) There are shapes of constant width other than the circle. One can even drill square holes.

4) There are just five regular polyhedra

5) In a group of 23 people, at least two have the same birthday with the probability greater than 1/2

6) Everything you can do with a ruler and a compass you can do with the compass alone

7) Among all shapes with the same perimeter a circle has the largest area.

8) There are curves that fill a plane without holes

9) Much as with people, there are irrational, perfect, complex numbers

10) As in philosophy, there are transcendental numbers

11) As in the art, there are imaginary and surreal numbers

12) A straight line has dimension 1, a plane - 2. Fractals have mostly fractional dimension

13) You are wrong if you think Mathematics is not fun

14) Mathematics studies neighborhoods, groups and free groups, rings, ideals, holes, poles and removable poles, trees, growth ...

15) Mathematics also studies models, shapes, curves, cardinals, similarity, consistency, completeness, space ...

16) Among objects of mathematical study are heredity, continuity, jumps, infinity, infinitesimals, paradoxes...

17) Last but not the least, Mathematics studies stability, projections and values, values are often absolute but may also be extreme, local or global.

18) Trigonometry aside, Mathematics comprises fields like Game Theory, Braids Theory, Knot Theory and more

19) One is morally obligated not to do anything impossible

20) Some numbers are square, yet others are triangular

21) The next sentence is true but you must not believe it

22) The previous sentence was false

23) 12+3-4+5+67+8+9=100 and there exists at least one other representation of 100 with 9 digits in the right order and math operations in between

24) One can cut a pie into 8 pieces with three movements

25) Program=Algorithms+Data Structures

26) There is something the dead eat but if the living eat it, they die.

27) A clock never showing right time might be preferable to the one showing right time twice a day

28) Among all shapes with the same area circle has the shortest perimeter

ENGINEERING HISTORY AND FACTS!

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1. 220 million tons of old computers and other technological hardware are trashed in the United States each year.

2. A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

3. According to Moore's Law, microchips double in power every 18 to 24 months.

4. Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.

5. Although the famous first flight at Kitty Hawk took place on December 17, 1903, the secretive Wright Brothers did not demonstrate the technology to the broader public until August 8, 1908.

6. As of early 2009, there have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981.

7. Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

8. Chuck Yeager blasted through the sound barrier at Edwards Air Force Base in 1947.

9. Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, the phenomenon by which electrons are knocked out of matter by electromagnetic radiation such as light.

10. In 1901, the Spanish engineer Leonar do Torres-Quevedo was responsible for the earliest developments in the remote control with his Telekine that was able to do "mechanical movements at a distance."

11. In their Miyagi, Japan laboratories, beginning in 1924, Professor Hidetsugu Yagi and his assistant, Shintaro Uda, designed and constructed a sensitive and highly-directional antenna using closely-coupled parasitic elements. The antenna, which is effective in the higher-frequency ranges, has been important for radar, television, and amateur radio.

12. Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science

13. No one has received more U.S. patents than Thomas Edison – 1,093 to be exact.

14. On 11 July 1962, France received the first transatlantic transmission of a TV signal from a twin station in Andover, Maine, USA via the TELSTAR satellite.

15. On 9 June 1906 the Winnipeg Electric Railway Co. transmitted electric power from the Pinawa generating station on the Winnipeg River to the city of Winnipeg at 60,000 volts. It was the first year-round hydroelectric plant in Manitoba and one of the first to be developed in such a cold climate anywhere in the world.

16. On December 12, 1901, a radio transmission of the Morse code letter 'S' was broadcast from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, using equipment built by John Ambrose Fleming.

17. One third of the world population has never made a telephone call.

18. Samuel Morse, the inventor of the Morse code, was a painter as well. One of his portraits is of the first governor of Arkansas and hangs in the governor’s mansion of that state.

19. Telecommunications satellites, and other satellites that need to maintain their position above a specific place on the earth, must orbit at 35,786 kilometers and travel in the same direction as the earth's rotation.

20. The circumference of the earth is about 25,000 miles. Its surface area is about 200,000,000 square miles and it weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.

21. The Ericsson Company first produced cellular phones in 1979.

22. The first computer mouse was introduced in 1968 by Douglas Engelbart at the Fall Joint Computer Expo in San Francisco.

23. The first Japanese-language word processor was developed in Tokyo between 1971 and 1978.

24. The first laser was made in California in 1960.

25. The first two video games copyrighted in the U.S. were Asteroids and Lunar Lander in 1980.

26. The Internet is the fastest-growing communications tool ever. It took radio broadcasters 38 years to reach an audience of 50 million, television 13 years, and the Internet just 4 years.

27. There have been 113 space shuttle flights since the program began in 1981.

28. Tim Berners-Lee coined the phrase “World Wide Web” in 1990.

29. U.S. President Bill Clinton's inauguration in January 1997 was the first to be webcast.

30. Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish engineer, invented an arc converter as a generator of continuous-wave radio signals in 1902.

FACTZ OF ANIMALS,REPTILES

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House flies have a lifespan of two weeks.

Chimps are the only animals that can recognize themselves in a mirror.

Starfish don't have brains.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

Shrimp's hearts are in their heads.

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

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds
Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards.

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

Porcupines float in water.

An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.

An iguana can stay under water for twenty-eight minutes.

The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
The leg bones of a bat are so thin that no bat can walk.

Ants cannot chew their food, they move their jaws sideways, like scissors, to extract the juices from the food.
Hummingbirds are the only animals able to fly backwards.

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

Armadillos get an average of 18.5 hours of sleep per day.

Armadillos can walk underwater.

There are more beetles than any other kind of creature in the world.

Certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen.

Only humans sleep on their backs.

The human brain is 80% water.

Everyone's tongue print is different.

As an adult, you have more than 20 square feet of skin on your body--about the same square footage as a blanket for a queen-sized bed.

In your lifetime, you'll shed over 40 pounds of skin.

15 million blood cells are produced and destroyed in the human body every second.

Every minute, 30-40,000 dead skin cells fall from your body.

The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.

If your mouth was completely dry, you would not be able to distinguish the taste of anything.

There are more living organisms on the skin of a single human being than there are human beings on the surface of the earth.

Muscles are made up of bundles from about 5 in the eyelid to about 200 in the buttock muscle.

Muscles in the human body (640 in total) make up about half of the body weight.

The human body has enough fat to produce 7 bars of soap.

The human head is a quarter of our total length at birth, but only an eighth of our total length by the time we reach adulthood.

Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.

Moths have no stomach.

Hummingbirds can't walk.

Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

A zebra is white with black stripes.

The animal with the largest brain in relation to its body is the ant.

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

A crocodile’s tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth.

Crocodiles swallow stones to help them dive deeper.

Giraffes are unable to cough.

Sharks are immune to cancer.

Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.

Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in 3 seconds.

A giraffe's neck contains the same number of vertebrae as a human.

The heart of giraffe is two feet long, and can weigh as much as twenty four pounds.

On average, Elephants sleep for about 2 hours per day.

Lobsters have blue blood.

Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.

A mosquito has 47 teeth.

Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.

Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin
Fish are the only vertebrates that outnumber birds.

A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day -- about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime
Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
Ants do not sleep.

Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the US is contaminated with bacteria.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

SKY HIGH FACTS

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* Flying from London to New York by Concord, due to the time zones crossed, you can arrive 2 hours before you leave.

* There is enough fuel in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.

* The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour. It was set with the lunar rover.

* If you could drive to the sun -- at 55 miles per hour -- it would take about 193 years.

* The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.

* Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.

* A Boeing 707 uses four thousand gallons of fuel in its take-off climb.

* The planet Saturn has a density lower than water. So, if placed in water it would float.

* Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface.

* It takes 70% less energy to produce a ton of paper from recycled paper than from trees.

* Every year in the US, 625 people are struck by lightning.

* Hawaii is moving toward Japan 4 inches every year.

* The rocket engine has to supply its own oxygen so it can burn its fuel in outer space.

* The North Atlantic gets 1 inch wider every year.

* Oxygen is the most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, waters, and atmosphere (about 49.5%).

* A stroke of lightning discharges from 10 to 100 million volts & 30,000 amperes of electricity.

* A bolt of lightning is about 54,000°F (30,000°C); six times hotter than the Sun.

* Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).

* The average distance between the Earth & the Moon is 238,857 miles (384,392 km).

* The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.

* The Earth weighs 6.6 sextillion tons, or 5.97 x 1024 kg.

* The center of the Sun is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million °C).

* Sunlight takes about 8 minutes & 20 seconds to reach the Earth at 186,282 miles/sec (299,792 Km/sec).

* The highest temperature on Earth was 136°F (58°C) in Libya in 1922.

* The lowest temperature on Earth was -128.6°F (-89.6°C) in Antarctica in 1983.

* Sunlight can penetrate clean ocean water to a depth of 240 feet.

* The average ocean floor is 12,000 feet.

* The temperature can be determined by counting the number of cricket chirps in fourteen seconds and adding 40.

IN DEPT FACTS!!

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*If you could throw a snowball fast enough, it would totally vaporize when it hit a brick wall.

*Boron nitride (BN) is the second hardest substance known to man.

*The female Tarantula Hawk wasp paralyzes a large spider with her sting. She then lays her eggs on the motionless body so that her developing young have a fresh supply of spider meat to feed on.

*The seeds of an Indian Lotus tree remain viable for 300 to 400 years.

*The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.

*Velcro was invented by a Swiss guy who was inspired by the way burrs attached to clothing.

*Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

*October 10 is National Metric Day.

*If you stretch a standard Slinky out flat it measures 87 feet long.

*The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

*Super Glue was invented by accident. The researcher was trying to make optical coating materials, and would test their properties by putting them between two prisms and shining light through them. When he tried the cyano-acrylate, he couldn't get the prisms apart.

*No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.

*A car traveling at 80 km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.

*Knowledge is growing so fast that ninety per cent of what we will know in fifty years time, will be discovered in those fifty years.

*According to an old English system of time units, a moment is one and a half minutes.

*The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.

*The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.

*When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.

*By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

*Ten minutes of one hurricane contains enough energy to match the nuclear stockpiles of the world.

*Most gemstones contain several elements. The exception? The diamond. It's all carbon.

*Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.

*Which of the 50 states has never had an earthquake? North Dakota.

*When hydrogen burns in the air, water is formed.

*Sterling silver contains 7.5% copper.

*Cars were first made with ignition keys in 1949.

*J.B Dunlop was first to put air into tires.

*Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.

*It is energy-efficient to turn off a fluorescent light only if it will not be used again within an hour or more. This is because of the high voltage needed to turn it on, and the shortened life this high voltage causes.

*The Earth's equatorial circumference (40,075 km) is greater than its polar circumference (40,008 km).

*Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.

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

*The Earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is 107,220 km per hour.

*There is a high and low tide because of our moon and the Sun.

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FACTS

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The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in the middle ear. It is approximately .11 inches (.28 cm) long.

The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe.

There are no poisonous snakes in Maine.

The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles.

The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, created by Hoover Dam.

The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

A new born blue whale measures 20-26 feet (6.0 - 7.9 meters) long and weighs up to 6,614 pounds (3003 kg).

The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.

The Virginia opossum has a gestation period of only 12-13 days.

The Stegosaurus dinosaur measured up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) long but had a brain the size of a walnut.

The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep.

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Skylab, the first American space station, fell to the earth in thousands of pieces in 1979. Thankfully most over the ocean.

It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.

Human jaw muscles can generate a force of 200 pounds (90.8 kilograms) on the molars.

The Skylab astronauts grew 1.5 - 2.25 inches (3.8 - 5.7 centimeters) due to spinal lengthening and straightening as a result of zero gravity.

An inch (2.5 centimeters) of rain water is equivalent to 15 inches (38.1 centimeters) of dry, powdery snow.

Tremendous erosion at the base of Niagara Falls (USA) undermines the shale cliffs and as a result the falls have receded approximately 7 miles over the last 10,000 years.

40 to 50 percent of body heat can be lost through the head (no hat) as a result of its extensive circulatory network.

A large swarm of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume 20,000 tons (18,160,000 kilograms) of vegetation a day.

The largest telescope in the world is currently being constructed in northern Chile. The telescope will utilize four - 26 ft. 8 in. (8.13 meters) mirrors which will gather as much light as a single 52 ft. 6 in. (16 meters) mirror.

The Hubble Space Telescope weighs 12 tons (10,896 kilograms), is 43 feet (13.1 meters) long, and cost $2.1 billion to originally build.

The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.

The largest flying animal was the pterosaur which lived 70 million years ago. This reptile had a wing span of 36-39 feet (11-11.9 meters) and weighed 190-250 pounds (86-113.5 kilograms).

The Atlantic Giant Squid's eye can be as large as 15.75 inches (40 centimeters) wide.

Armadillos, opossums, and sloth's spend about 80% of their lives sleeping.

The starfish species, Porcellanaster ivanovi, has been found to live in water as deep as 24,881 feet (7,584 meters).

The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.

The greatest tide change on earth occurs in the Bay of Fundy. The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters).

The highest temperature produced in a laboratory was 920,000,000 F (511,000,000 C) at the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor in Princeton, NJ, USA.

The most powerful laser in the world, the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, USA, generates a pulse of energy equal to 100,000,000,000,000 watts of power for .000000001 second to a target the size of a grain of sand.

The fastest computer in the world is the CRAY Y-MP C90 supercomputer. It has two gigabytes of central memory and 16 parallel central processor units.

The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.).

The deepest part of the ocean is 35,813 feet (10,916 meters) deep and occurs in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. At that depth the pressure is 18,000 pounds (9172 kilograms) per square inch.

The largest cave in the world (the Sarawak Chamber in Malaysia) is 2,300 feet (701 meters) long, 980 feet (299 meters) wide, and more than 230 feet (70 meters) high.

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

The ears of a cricket are located on the front legs, just below the knee.

The first electronic digital computer (called ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was developed in 1946 and contained over 18,000 vacuum tubes.

The leg muscles of a locust are about 1000 times more powerful than an equal weight of human muscle.

The cosmos contains approximately 50,000,000,000 galaxies.

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.

Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.

Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about 2500 years ago. This was discovered by analyzing ice cores from Greenland. The pollution was attributed to the Romans who used copper for military purposes and to produce coins.

Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.

In a full grown rye plant, the total length of roots may reach 380 miles (613 km).

In a full grown rye plant, the total length of fine root hairs may reach 6600 miles (10,645 km).

A large sunspot can last for about a week.

FACTS OF INVENTION OVER LAST 10 DECADES.

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100 years ago: The first virus was found in both plants and animals.

90 years ago: The Grand Canyon became a national monument & Cellophane is invented.

80 years ago: The food mixer and the domestic refrigerator were invented.

70 years ago: The teletype and PVC (polyvinyl-chloride) were invented.

60 years ago: Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium, Teflon was invented.

50 years ago: Velcro was invented.

40 years ago: An all-female population of lizards was discovered in Armenia.

30 years ago: The computer mouse was invented.

20 years ago: First test-tube baby born in England, Pluto’s moon, Charon, discovered.

10 years ago: First patent for a genetically-engineered mouse was issued to Harvard Medical School.

5 years ago: The first successful cloning of human embryo.

ANIMAL FACTS

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* Flea's can jump 130 times higher than their own height. In human terms this is equal to a 6ft. person jumping 780 ft. into the air.

* 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.

* Snakes are true carnivorous because they eat nothing but other animals. They do not eat any type of plant material.

* The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft in length.

READ N THINK !!!

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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.

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 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!

It 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!

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

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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 Rochester, Michigan, the law is that anyone bathing in public must have the bathing suit inspected by a police officer !

In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year.

BODY FACTS

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* Brain doesn’t feel pain: Even though the brain processes pain signals, the brain itself does not actually feel pain.

* Your brain has huge oxygen needs: Your brain requires 20 percent of the oxygen and calories your body needs — even though your brain only makes up two percent of your total body weight.

* 80% of the brain is water: Instead of being relatively solid, your brain 80% water. This means that it is important that you remain properly hydrated for the sake of your mind.

* Your brain comes out to play at night: You’d think that your brain is more active during the day, when the rest of your body is. But it’s not. Your brain is more active when you sleep.

* Your brain operates on 10 watts of power: It’s true: The amazing computational power of your brain only requires about 10 watts of power to operate.

* A higher I.Q. equals more dreams: The smarter you are, the more you dream. A high I.Q. can also fight mental illness. Some people even believe they are smarter in their dreams than when they are awake.
* The brain changes shapes during puberty: Your teenage years do more than just change how you feel; the very structure of your brain changes during the teen years, and it even affects impulsive, risky behavior.

* Your brain can store everything: Technically, your brain has the capacity to store everything you experience, see, read or hear. However, the real issue is recall — whether you can access that information.

* Information in your brain travels at different speeds: The neurons in your brain are built differently, and information travels along them at different speeds. This is why sometimes you can recall information instantly, and sometimes it takes a little longer.

* Your smell is unique: Your body odor is unique to you — unless you have an identical twin.

* Even babies recognize the individual scents of their mothers.

* Humans use echolocation: Humans can use sound to sense objects in their area using echolocation. It is thought that those who are blind develop this ability to heightened effectiveness.

* Adrenaline gives you super strength: Yes, with the proper response in certain situations, you really can lift a car.

* Women smell better than men: Women are better than men at identifying smells.

* Your nose remembers 50,000 scents: It is possible for your nose to identify and remember more than 50,000 smells.

* Your hearing decreases when you overeat: When you eat too much food, it actually reduces your ability to hear. So consider eating healthy — and only until you are full.

* Your sense of time is in your head: How you experience time is all about your perception. Some speculate that stress can help you experience time dilation. Apparently, time manipulation isn’t just for superheroes.

* A sneeze can exceed 100 mph: When a sneeze leaves your body, it does so at high speeds — so you should avoid suppressing it and causing damage to your body.

* Coughs leave at 60 mph: A cough is much less dangerous, leaving the body at 60 mph. That’s still highway speed, though.

* skeletonBones can self-destruct: It is possible for your bones to destruct without enough calcium intake.

* You are taller in the morning: Throughout the day, the cartilage between your bones is compressed, making you about 1 cm shorter by day’s end.

* 1/4 of your bones are in your feet: There are 26 bones in each foot, meaning that the 52 bones in account for 25 percent of your body’s 206 bones.

* It takes more muscles to frown than to smile: Scientists can’t agree on the exact number, but more muscles are required to frown than to smile.

* When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles: Walking uses a great deal of muscle power — especially if you take your 10,000 steps.

* Your tongue is the strongest muscle in your body: Compared to its size, the tongue is the strongest muscle. But I doubt you’ll be lifting weights with it.

* Bone can be stronger than steel: Once again, this is a pound for pound comparison, since steel is denser and has a higher tensile strength.

* We have a number of body parts that are, well, useless. Here are some facts about the body parts we don’t actually need.

* ToesCoccyx: This collection of fused vertebrae have no purpose these days, although scientists believe it’s what’s left of the mammal tail humans used to have. It may be useless, but when you break your coccyx, it’s still painful.

* Pinkie toe: There is speculation that since we no longer have to run for our dinner, and we wear sneakers, the pinkie toe’s evolutionary purpose is disappearing — and maybe the pinkie itself will go the way of the dodo.

* Wisdom teeth: This third set of molars is largely useless, doing little beyond crowding the mouth and sometimes causing pain.

* Vomeronasal organ: There are tiny (and useless) chemoreceptors lining the inside of the nose.

* Most body hair: While facial hair serves some purposes, the hair found on the rest of body is practically useless and can be removed with few ill effects.

FACTS ABOUT INDIA

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*Chess was invented in India.

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

*The 'Place Value System' and the 'Decimal System' were developed in India in 100 B.C.

*India is the largest democracy in the worldThe game of Snakes & Ladders was created by the 13th century poet saint Gyandev.

*India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.

*The largest employer in India is the Indian Railways, employing over a million people.

*The world's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.

*The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

*Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to mankind.

*The Father of Medicine, Charaka, consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago.

* The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem.

*Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus also originated in India.

*Quadratic Equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.

*Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world The Baily Bridge is the highest bridge in the world. It is located in the Ladakh valley between the Dras and Suru rivers in the Himalayan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army in August 1982.

*Sushruta is regarded as the Father of Surgery. Over2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones, plastic surgery and brain surgeries.

*The four religions born in India - Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, are followed by 25% of the world's population. Jainism and Buddhism were founded in India in 600 B.C. and 500 B.C. respectively.

* There are 300,000 active mosques in India, more than in any other country, including the Muslim world.
*Martial Arts were first created in India, and later spread to Asia by Buddhist missionaries.
*Yoga has its origins in India and has existed for over 5,000 years.