Facts-DidYouKnow

Not Everyone Dreams in Color

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:32:00 -0700

A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams, which are situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, teeth falling out, flying, failing an examination, or a car accident. It is unknown whether the impact of a dream relating to violence or death is more emotionally charged for a person who dreams in color than one who dreams in black and white.

Dreams Prevent Psychosis

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:29:00 -0700

In a recent sleep study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis after only 3 days. When finally allowed their REM sleep the student’s brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage.

Everybody Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:26:00 -0700

Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women tend to dream equally about men and women. In addition, both men and women experience sexually related physical reactions to their dreams regardless of whether the dream is sexual in nature; males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow.

Blind People Dream

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:13:00 -0700

People who become 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. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body’s need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen.

Hello

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Thu, 4 Aug 2011 04:09:00 -0700

Hello is a word used as greeting. It is an expression used to greet somebody you meet (or to answer a telephone call). If you want to say "hello" in a different language then the list below should come in handy.

However, verbally expressing (saying) “hello” might not be easy. Trying to pronounce a word in a different language, that you are not acquainted with, can cause you to mispronounce the word. If possible, try to listen carefully to how people of that language greet each other. The pronunciation of word can also vary from one region to another within a country. It may, as well, not be the best phrase to say in a given situation. Depending on a culture, it may be customary to say “hello” with a hand shake, hug, bow etc.

Since you are learning to say HELLO in different languages not all countries are listed. This is because you are not learning to say HELLO in every different country (where the language would be the same for one already listed). Here are some of the ways of saying "hello" in different languages around the world.

Christmas

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:26:00 -0800

The first Christmas was celebrated on December 25, AD 336 in Rome.

Earth

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:24:00 -0800

Earth weighs 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,00 0 tons

Mirror

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:23:00 -0800

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

Mice

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:21:00 -0800

In 1958, the US sent two mice called Laska and Benjy into space.

Word

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:19:00 -0800

Kya Apko Pata Hai Hum Jo Sabd (word) Likhte Hai Uska Weight Kitna Hota Hai?
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Ans-0000125 aaus H.

Gas

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:17:00 -0800

What Gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere?
ans-Carbon Dioxide

Funny words in the computer world

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:56:00 -0800

There are some funny words in the computer world. A brouter is a network bridge and a router combined in a single product. A glyph is a graphic symbol that provides the appearance or form for an alphabetic or numeric font. (“Glyph” is from a Greek word for “carving.”) A moof monster is a vague and indefinable source of trouble for users of information technology. A jughead is a tool used by researchers for searching information on gopher sites. Not gopher the squirrel but the old information retrieval system called Gopher, predecessor to the World Wide Web.

A kludge (pronounced kloodzh) is an awkward or clumsy (but at least temporarily effective) solution to a programming or hardware design or implementation problem. A Flying Ice Cube is what lives inside computers of scientists trying to simulate molecules. At the office, a Boss Key is the key you hit to quickly hide something when you see your boss or uninvited coworker approaching.

Although two of the most famous names in the computer world – the Internet world, more precisely – are now plainly familiar they did sound funny in their early days. Yahoo once was a word used to express delight [e.g. Yahoo! I've done it!] the dictionary defines yahoo as “not very intelligent or interested in culture,” and “one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels 1726; rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.” David Filo and Jerry Young apparently liked the definition of a yahoo and, in April 1994, used it to rename the Internet service their founded four months earlier as “David’s and Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” They added the exclamation mark after the name and explained it’s backronym to be “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”

Sean Anderson, on the other hand, had numbers instead of words in mind when he suggested another name for Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s BackRub search engine (written in 1996 in the java and python computer languages). In 1997, Sean suggested googolplex, after the mathematical unit that refers to extremely large numbers, but Larry decided on the shortened form: googol. According to David Koller of the Stanford University, Sean misspelled the word as “google.” The rest is history of extremely large numbers.

The term googol was first mentioned in 1938 by Edward Kasner and referred to in the book Mathematics and the Imagination that he co-published with James Newman in 1940. Googol was coined by Kasner’s 8-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta, as a reply to what name he would give to a really large number. It sounded kinda funny until we started googling ourselves and other things.

Fictional languages:

Many of new computer words were created for or originated in the fictional languages in sci-fi movies and video games, some which sprung complete new languages such as Klingon (Star Trek), D’ni (Myst and Riven) and Simlish (The Sims). Perhaps distant beings will be googling themselves soon too.

More computer funnies:

DEFINITION: Computer – A device designed to speed and automate errors.
All computers wait at the same speed.
Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue.
Press any key to continue or any other key to quit.
Press any key… no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE!
KEYBOARD: An instrument used for entering errors into a system.
HARDWARE: The parts of a computer which can be kicked.
PCMCIA: People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing.
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!
To err is human; to really mess things up you need a computer.

Great Pyramids

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:44:00 -0800

The Great Pyramids used to be as white as snow because they were encased in a bright limestone that has worn off over the years

whales

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:42:00 -0800

Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison

Distance

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:40:00 -0800

The longest distance a deepwater lobster has been recorded to travel is 225 miles

Sign

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:39:00 -0800

In 1894 the first big Coke sign was found on the side of a building located in Cartersville, Georgia, and still exists today

Asian Bear Cat

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:37:00 -0800

The fur of the binturong, also known as the "Asian Bear Cat," smells like popcorn. The scent is believed to come from a gland located near the tail

Cinderella

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:34:00 -0800

Cinderella is known as Rashin Coatie in Scotland, Zezolla in Italy, and Yeh-hsien in China

Alaska

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:33:00 -0800

The Kodiak, which is native to Alaska, is the largest bear and can measure up to eight feet and weigh as much as 1,700 pounds

Human

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:32:00 -0800

Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining

Temperature

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:31:00 -0800

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

Human Body

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:30:00 -0800

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

Thermomete

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:29:00 -0800

The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

Antarctica

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:28:00 -0800

Antarctica is the highest,driest,and coldest continent on Earth

Electricity

noreply@blogger.com (DidYouKnow) — Tue, 9 Nov 2010 06:26:00 -0800

-Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire