-The Taj Mahal, one of the world’s most beautiful buildings, was scheduled to be torn down in 1930s so that its marble facing could be removed and shipped to London for sale by auction to the landed English gentry. Wrecking machinery was moved into the garden grounds and work about to begin when word came from London not to proceed.
-Haj Ahmel, who was once Bey of Algeria, had 385 wives who all came from different parts of the world so that none of them could communicate.
-When Mohammed Ali was ruler of Egypt, he created two infantry regiments consisting solely of one – eyed soldiers.
-You have about 3,000 taste buds on your tongue!
-The twenty-first wife of Hieronymus of Rome had been married twenty times before.
-There is a city in Sahara called Tegazza which is built entirely of salt.
-The funeral processing of a Chinese general marched 3,700 kilometres and lasted for a whole year.
-The nail on your middle finger grows fastest. Your thumb nail is the slowest to grow.
11 X 11 = 121
111 X 111 = 12321
1111 X 1111 = 1234321
11111 X 11111 = 123454321
-There are more than 200 different viruses that can cause colds!
-If a drop of whisky is squirted onto its back, a scorpion will sting itself to death.
-The income-tax rate for the Gulf States of Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar is NIL.
-Tests have shown that the combination of black and yellow has the strongest visual impact, balck on white follows next.
-Nearly all our weather is produced in the lower 15 km of the atmosphere.
-Eating mice that had been fried alive used to be regarded as a cure for smallpox in many parts of Britain.
-Many breeds of tropical fish could survive in an aquarium filled with human blood.
-Most people can distinguish 10,000 different smells.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
FASCINATING FACTS
-Not only was Cleopatra the product of a brother and sister marriage, she married two of her own brothers as well.
-Any whole number decreased by the sum of its digits will leave a reminder that can be divided by 9.
-There are at least eighty different varieties of rice grown in India.
-The superstitions surrounding the number 13 originate from the last supper, when 13 sat down to eat.
-A yak has the skeleton of a bison, the hair of a goat, the tail of a horse, the head of a cow and makes a grunt like a pig.
-What we call Indian ink, actually comes from China.
-Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.
-Water is hotter before boiling than when it has actually boiled.
-In ancient Greece, the symbol for a happy marriage was the triangle.
-At birth our muscles are only one fortieth of their eventual size and power.
-Birds are sometimes able to set their own broken wings.
-There is a waterfall near Honolulu which “falls” upwards.
-Every country in the world has its name printed on its stamps – except Great Britain – the first to issue them!
-The word ‘AMEN’ is the Hebrew word for ‘so be it’. It is used by Christians, Jews and Moslems as well.
-Both Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were epileptics.
-The sun burns 240,000,000 tonnes of Hydrogen dust every minute.
-The backbone of the Camel is perfectly straight.
-A cat’s eyes glow at night because they have a layer of cells in the inner eye that reflect light.
-Any whole number decreased by the sum of its digits will leave a reminder that can be divided by 9.
-There are at least eighty different varieties of rice grown in India.
-The superstitions surrounding the number 13 originate from the last supper, when 13 sat down to eat.
-A yak has the skeleton of a bison, the hair of a goat, the tail of a horse, the head of a cow and makes a grunt like a pig.
-What we call Indian ink, actually comes from China.
-Peanuts are used in the manufacture of dynamite.
-Water is hotter before boiling than when it has actually boiled.
-In ancient Greece, the symbol for a happy marriage was the triangle.
-At birth our muscles are only one fortieth of their eventual size and power.
-Birds are sometimes able to set their own broken wings.
-There is a waterfall near Honolulu which “falls” upwards.
-Every country in the world has its name printed on its stamps – except Great Britain – the first to issue them!
-The word ‘AMEN’ is the Hebrew word for ‘so be it’. It is used by Christians, Jews and Moslems as well.
-Both Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were epileptics.
-The sun burns 240,000,000 tonnes of Hydrogen dust every minute.
-The backbone of the Camel is perfectly straight.
-A cat’s eyes glow at night because they have a layer of cells in the inner eye that reflect light.
Friday, March 19, 2010
FASCINATING FACTS
The sentence,”The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”, contains all the letters of the alphabet.
- At an altitude of 7,620 metres a pilot can see for a distance of 312 kilometres.
- A female mosquito can produce 150,000,000 offsprings in one year.
-Taiwan is the largest exporter of mushrooms in the world.
-Rain contains Vitamin B12.
-The Mona Lisa was first bought by Francis I King of France, who used to decorate his bathroom.
-The largest eggs are laid by sharks.
-There are 3,000 sweat glands to every square inch of skin in the palms of our hands.
-The penguin, an Antarctic bird, can no longer fly, but it can move through water faster than a submarine.
-Sodium burns fiercely when placed in water but can be stored quite safely in paraffin.
-Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world.
-Banana oil does not come from bananas, it is a chemical distillate obtained from coal.
-There are now over 5,000 different languages and dialects spoken in the world, with 845 of these spoken in India alone.
-The thirteenth day of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of the week.
-The hair spring of a watch was originally a pig’s hair.
-Termites can produce substances in their bodies that can rust metal, disintegrate glass and burn through lead.
-There is no soda in soda water.
- At an altitude of 7,620 metres a pilot can see for a distance of 312 kilometres.
- A female mosquito can produce 150,000,000 offsprings in one year.
-Taiwan is the largest exporter of mushrooms in the world.
-Rain contains Vitamin B12.
-The Mona Lisa was first bought by Francis I King of France, who used to decorate his bathroom.
-The largest eggs are laid by sharks.
-There are 3,000 sweat glands to every square inch of skin in the palms of our hands.
-The penguin, an Antarctic bird, can no longer fly, but it can move through water faster than a submarine.
-Sodium burns fiercely when placed in water but can be stored quite safely in paraffin.
-Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world.
-Banana oil does not come from bananas, it is a chemical distillate obtained from coal.
-There are now over 5,000 different languages and dialects spoken in the world, with 845 of these spoken in India alone.
-The thirteenth day of the month is more likely to fall on a Friday than on any other day of the week.
-The hair spring of a watch was originally a pig’s hair.
-Termites can produce substances in their bodies that can rust metal, disintegrate glass and burn through lead.
-There is no soda in soda water.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Fascinating Facts
- The luckiest number in Italy is 13.
- The sphinx was carved from one piece of stone.
- Every tenth egg is larger than the preceding nine.
- When a piece of glass cracks, the cracks move at a speed of over 4,800 kms per hour.
- The most talkative parrot on record, an African grey parrot belonging to a London family, had a vocabulary of almost 1000 words.
- Most people move about forty times in their sleep during the night. Insomniacs may move as many as seventy times.
- The camel has no gall bladder.
- The famous Egyptian sphinx is in fact a statue of the goddess Armachis.
- Abraham Lincoln had a dream on the eve of his first election as President. In a large mirror, he noticed two distinct images of himself, one imposed on the other. One image was much paler than the other. Lincoln told his wife about the dream and she interpreted it to mean that he would be elected to a second term but would not live through it.
- While it was the deepest secret in the world, the atomic bomb was publicly described with considerable accuracy by Cleve Cartmill – a year and half before it was announced officially. The description was included in a science-fiction story called “Deadline” in the March, 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, so virtually no one paid any attention.
- In the Tahiti botanical gardens, there is a bamboo plant standing 140 feet high.
- Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
- The complete root system of the pumpkin plant would stretch for 24 kilometers, if every root was laid end to end.
- In 1695, two scientists obtained a diamond from a rich patron and heated it by using a lens to focus light on it. The diamond disappeared. Diamond is made of carbon, and it burns just as coal will when it is heated strongly enough.
- The social instinct among monkeys is so strong that if one of a group is ill, the others will forego their food etc. for him.
- A mole can dig a tunnel 100 yards long in a single night.
- The chameleon’s tongue, which always hits its prey, can be extended more than twice the length of its body.
- The average electrical eel produce a shock of 400 volts, though some larger ones have been known to generate much larger shocks of 650 volts, powerful enough to kill a man.
- Hens in the USA lay over 13, 80,000 eggs every minute.
- Blind people who have been blind from birth can not dream sights but they dream sounds instead.
- Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
- The JEEP got its name from its original initials G.P. which stood for GENERAL PURPOSE VEHICLE.
- 14622047999 divided by 10 leaves a remainder of 9, Divided by 9 leaves a remainder of 8, Divided by 7 leaves a remainder of 6 and so on.
- Chemically the substance that is closest to human blood is sea water.
-Luminous bacteria that have the ability to give off light have been cooled to a temperature of -190 Deg. C and found to be alive when they were warmed up.
- An albatross can fly all day and not flip its wings once.
- The only animal that sleeps on its back is man.
- Mosquitoes prefer to bite blondes.
- It takes over ten years for a cork tree to grow one layer of cork.
- Soya beans are used in the manufacture of glue, paint, plastics and explosives.
- Some stars in the Milky Way are 80,000 light years from the earth.
- The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
- Petrol and paraffin extinguish fires in bales of cotton more efficiently than water.
- Grasshoppers have white blood.
- Christian Heinrich of Lubeck was able to talk when he was eight weeks old and he knew pieces from the Pentateuch and the Bible at the age of thirteen months.
- An Alsatian’s sense of smell is a million times better than a man’s.
- The Great White Shark is the only creature living in the sea that has no natural enemies even killer whales avoid it.
- The sphinx was carved from one piece of stone.
- Every tenth egg is larger than the preceding nine.
- When a piece of glass cracks, the cracks move at a speed of over 4,800 kms per hour.
- The most talkative parrot on record, an African grey parrot belonging to a London family, had a vocabulary of almost 1000 words.
- Most people move about forty times in their sleep during the night. Insomniacs may move as many as seventy times.
- The camel has no gall bladder.
- The famous Egyptian sphinx is in fact a statue of the goddess Armachis.
- Abraham Lincoln had a dream on the eve of his first election as President. In a large mirror, he noticed two distinct images of himself, one imposed on the other. One image was much paler than the other. Lincoln told his wife about the dream and she interpreted it to mean that he would be elected to a second term but would not live through it.
- While it was the deepest secret in the world, the atomic bomb was publicly described with considerable accuracy by Cleve Cartmill – a year and half before it was announced officially. The description was included in a science-fiction story called “Deadline” in the March, 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, so virtually no one paid any attention.
- In the Tahiti botanical gardens, there is a bamboo plant standing 140 feet high.
- Napoleon suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
- The complete root system of the pumpkin plant would stretch for 24 kilometers, if every root was laid end to end.
- In 1695, two scientists obtained a diamond from a rich patron and heated it by using a lens to focus light on it. The diamond disappeared. Diamond is made of carbon, and it burns just as coal will when it is heated strongly enough.
- The social instinct among monkeys is so strong that if one of a group is ill, the others will forego their food etc. for him.
- A mole can dig a tunnel 100 yards long in a single night.
- The chameleon’s tongue, which always hits its prey, can be extended more than twice the length of its body.
- The average electrical eel produce a shock of 400 volts, though some larger ones have been known to generate much larger shocks of 650 volts, powerful enough to kill a man.
- Hens in the USA lay over 13, 80,000 eggs every minute.
- Blind people who have been blind from birth can not dream sights but they dream sounds instead.
- Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing.
- The JEEP got its name from its original initials G.P. which stood for GENERAL PURPOSE VEHICLE.
- 14622047999 divided by 10 leaves a remainder of 9, Divided by 9 leaves a remainder of 8, Divided by 7 leaves a remainder of 6 and so on.
- Chemically the substance that is closest to human blood is sea water.
-Luminous bacteria that have the ability to give off light have been cooled to a temperature of -190 Deg. C and found to be alive when they were warmed up.
- An albatross can fly all day and not flip its wings once.
- The only animal that sleeps on its back is man.
- Mosquitoes prefer to bite blondes.
- It takes over ten years for a cork tree to grow one layer of cork.
- Soya beans are used in the manufacture of glue, paint, plastics and explosives.
- Some stars in the Milky Way are 80,000 light years from the earth.
- The human body contains enough fat to make seven bars of soap.
- Petrol and paraffin extinguish fires in bales of cotton more efficiently than water.
- Grasshoppers have white blood.
- Christian Heinrich of Lubeck was able to talk when he was eight weeks old and he knew pieces from the Pentateuch and the Bible at the age of thirteen months.
- An Alsatian’s sense of smell is a million times better than a man’s.
- The Great White Shark is the only creature living in the sea that has no natural enemies even killer whales avoid it.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
FASCINATING FACTS
-The Sahara is as large as Europe and larger than the combined area of the next nine largest deserts in the world.
-Up to 30,000 tonnes of cosmic dust are deposited on the earth each year.
-Flies take off with a backward jump.
-Fireflies are bright enough to shine through the stomach of a frog.
-Three 25 watt bulbs produce less light than one 75 watt bulb.
-The sun weighs 3, 30,000 times as much as the earth.
-The world’s largest palace is the Imperial Palace in the heart of Peking, which covers an area of 178 acres.
-Typewriters were first developed to help the blind.
-The Ostrich can run at speeds of up to 40 miles an hour and on Ostrich farms in Cape Province, South Africa, they hold Ostrich races for tourists.
-The cigar is named after the Mayan word for smoking, sik’ar.
-The human eye can distinguish about 17,000 different colours.
-There is more sugar in a kilo of lemons than in a kilo of strawberries.
-If you had fifteen books on a shelf and you arrange them in every possible combination, and if you made one change every minute, it would take you 24, 87,996 years to do them all.
-It was claimed that a tiger shot by Colonel Jim Corbett in 1907 had killed 436 people in India.
-A rattle snake or viper has special cells between its nostril and its eye which are sensitive to infra-red radiant heat. They can locate people in the dark by the heat they give off.
-The Emperor Penguin of the Antarctic can reach a depth of 870 feet and remain submerged for as long as 18 minutes.
-Lightening strikes the earth a hundred times every second from the 1800 thunderstorms in progress, at any given moment.
-Eighty percent of the world’s supply of dates comes from Iraq.
-Scientists have found that mice prefer women to men.
-Early guns took so long to load and fire that bows and arrows – in trained hands – were twelve times more efficient.
-The silkworm is not a worm: It is a caterpillar.
-Each square inch of human skin consists of 19 million cells, sixty hairs, ninety oil glands, and nineteen feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands and 19,000 sensory cells.
-The driest place on Earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Not a drop of rain has been seen there.
-Every year more than 50,000 earthquakes take place on earth. Of these most are too slight to be noticeable to man.
-There are 25, 00,000 rivets in the Effel Tower.
-There are more than 600 muscles in our muscular system.
-Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one, the Pyramids of Egypt, is still in existence. Others have crumbled and disappeared. The great reason of the duration of the Pyramid above all other forms is that it is most fitted to resist the force of gravitation.
-The royal house of Saudi Arabia may at present have as many as 5,000 prices and an equal number of princesses. King Abdul Aziz Saud, who ruled from 1932 until his death in 1953, had 300 wives.
-Coffee is the world’s second largest item of international commerce. (Petroleum is first.)
-House Lizards are perfectly harmless. They neither bite nor are they aggressive. In fact they help man by eating insects like flies and mosquitoes.
-A popular misconception seems to be that filtered cigarettes are less dangerous than unfiltered ones. According to a study the opposite would be the case: people who prefer filtered cigarettes are in danger of dying two to almost four years earlier than smokers of filter less cigarettes. Filters prevent the dilution of the smoke by oxygen so that the bloodstream builds up higher levels of carbon monoxide, in the form of carboxyhemoglobin.
-Egyptian embalmers used to remove a dead person’s brains through his nostrils.
-The heaviest bell in the world, the Tsar Kolokol Bell, was cast in 1733 in Moscow, Russia. This bell, which has been standing in the Kremlin since 1836, is over 19 feet high, 24 inch thick and weighs 216 tones.
-A person’s hair can not turn white overnight because of some terrible tragedy or frightening experience – or for any other reason.
-Assembly line method made it possible for the US Shipyards of Henry J.Kaiser during World War-II to produce a ship in just four days.
-Up to 30,000 tonnes of cosmic dust are deposited on the earth each year.
-Flies take off with a backward jump.
-Fireflies are bright enough to shine through the stomach of a frog.
-Three 25 watt bulbs produce less light than one 75 watt bulb.
-The sun weighs 3, 30,000 times as much as the earth.
-The world’s largest palace is the Imperial Palace in the heart of Peking, which covers an area of 178 acres.
-Typewriters were first developed to help the blind.
-The Ostrich can run at speeds of up to 40 miles an hour and on Ostrich farms in Cape Province, South Africa, they hold Ostrich races for tourists.
-The cigar is named after the Mayan word for smoking, sik’ar.
-The human eye can distinguish about 17,000 different colours.
-There is more sugar in a kilo of lemons than in a kilo of strawberries.
-If you had fifteen books on a shelf and you arrange them in every possible combination, and if you made one change every minute, it would take you 24, 87,996 years to do them all.
-It was claimed that a tiger shot by Colonel Jim Corbett in 1907 had killed 436 people in India.
-A rattle snake or viper has special cells between its nostril and its eye which are sensitive to infra-red radiant heat. They can locate people in the dark by the heat they give off.
-The Emperor Penguin of the Antarctic can reach a depth of 870 feet and remain submerged for as long as 18 minutes.
-Lightening strikes the earth a hundred times every second from the 1800 thunderstorms in progress, at any given moment.
-Eighty percent of the world’s supply of dates comes from Iraq.
-Scientists have found that mice prefer women to men.
-Early guns took so long to load and fire that bows and arrows – in trained hands – were twelve times more efficient.
-The silkworm is not a worm: It is a caterpillar.
-Each square inch of human skin consists of 19 million cells, sixty hairs, ninety oil glands, and nineteen feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands and 19,000 sensory cells.
-The driest place on Earth is Calama, in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Not a drop of rain has been seen there.
-Every year more than 50,000 earthquakes take place on earth. Of these most are too slight to be noticeable to man.
-There are 25, 00,000 rivets in the Effel Tower.
-There are more than 600 muscles in our muscular system.
-Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only one, the Pyramids of Egypt, is still in existence. Others have crumbled and disappeared. The great reason of the duration of the Pyramid above all other forms is that it is most fitted to resist the force of gravitation.
-The royal house of Saudi Arabia may at present have as many as 5,000 prices and an equal number of princesses. King Abdul Aziz Saud, who ruled from 1932 until his death in 1953, had 300 wives.
-Coffee is the world’s second largest item of international commerce. (Petroleum is first.)
-House Lizards are perfectly harmless. They neither bite nor are they aggressive. In fact they help man by eating insects like flies and mosquitoes.
-A popular misconception seems to be that filtered cigarettes are less dangerous than unfiltered ones. According to a study the opposite would be the case: people who prefer filtered cigarettes are in danger of dying two to almost four years earlier than smokers of filter less cigarettes. Filters prevent the dilution of the smoke by oxygen so that the bloodstream builds up higher levels of carbon monoxide, in the form of carboxyhemoglobin.
-Egyptian embalmers used to remove a dead person’s brains through his nostrils.
-The heaviest bell in the world, the Tsar Kolokol Bell, was cast in 1733 in Moscow, Russia. This bell, which has been standing in the Kremlin since 1836, is over 19 feet high, 24 inch thick and weighs 216 tones.
-A person’s hair can not turn white overnight because of some terrible tragedy or frightening experience – or for any other reason.
-Assembly line method made it possible for the US Shipyards of Henry J.Kaiser during World War-II to produce a ship in just four days.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Fascinating Facts
Of the 22 bones connected by joints in your scull, only one can move – the one in your lower jaw, which permits you to talk, laugh and chew food.
The hairs of a man’s beard are about as strong as copper wires of the same dimension.
The temperature of the heat wave that is generated by the re-entry of a space capsule into earth’s atmosphere, is the same as the temperature on the surface of the sun, about 6,000 Deg.C.
You need 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.
In the lower depths of the oceans the water pressure is so great that a bottle dropped from the surface would be broken before it reached the bottom.
One of the candidates who failed at his first attempt to pass the entrance examinations for the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich was a young man named Albert Einstein.
Experiments with ants have shown that they are capable of lifting stones fifty times their own weight and pulling loads three hundred times their own weight.
A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, is the largest mosque in the world and can accommodate 1000,000 in the courtyard, where services are held. It was built in 1671.
Of all the world’s major languages, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 2000 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap and enough iron to make one nail.
The complete skin covering of the body measures about 20 square feet.
The world’s largest animal is the Sulphur bottom whale which has been known to measure 150 feet in length and thirty feet in girth.
Muhammed Ali is the only man to have twice regained the World Heavyweight boxing title.
The letter most in use in the English language is the letter “E” and the letter “Q” is used the least.
Contrary to popular belief alcohol does not warm the body but reduces body heat rapidly.
Every minute, twelve cars are manufactured in the USA.
Turtles have no teeth.
If goldfish are left in a darkroom for a long period, they will frequently turn white.
The Ostrich is the largest of living birds. It stands eight feet tall and weighs over 300 pounds.
In 24 Hours, average healthy adult breaths 23,000 times.
All mammals, except man and monkey are colour blind.
The centre of the earth is almost 4000 miles beneath our feet.
You can see the stars from the bottom of a well even in daylight.
The largest ship in the world is a French oil tanker that is nearly 415 metres long, almost as long as Sydney harbour bridge.
Beethoven was half deaf most of his life. He was completely deaf when he composed his greatest work, the Ninth Symphony.
Holland has the densest population per square mile of any nation in the world.
A wingless orthopteran insect can survive in a frozen state in the Arctic for months, but dies if exposed to the warmth of a human hand.
A kangaroo can hop at an estimated speed of 41 km per hour.
Salt was once a very precious commodity, so much so that many people were paid their wages in salt, hence the word ‘SALARY’
The lowest valued note in the world is the Hong Kong 1 cent note of which 1,200
Equal f 1.00
The hairs of a man’s beard are about as strong as copper wires of the same dimension.
The temperature of the heat wave that is generated by the re-entry of a space capsule into earth’s atmosphere, is the same as the temperature on the surface of the sun, about 6,000 Deg.C.
You need 120 drops of water to fill a teaspoon.
In the lower depths of the oceans the water pressure is so great that a bottle dropped from the surface would be broken before it reached the bottom.
One of the candidates who failed at his first attempt to pass the entrance examinations for the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich was a young man named Albert Einstein.
Experiments with ants have shown that they are capable of lifting stones fifty times their own weight and pulling loads three hundred times their own weight.
A single drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, is the largest mosque in the world and can accommodate 1000,000 in the courtyard, where services are held. It was built in 1671.
Of all the world’s major languages, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words.
The human body contains enough phosphorus to make the heads of 2000 matches, enough fat for seven bars of soap and enough iron to make one nail.
The complete skin covering of the body measures about 20 square feet.
The world’s largest animal is the Sulphur bottom whale which has been known to measure 150 feet in length and thirty feet in girth.
Muhammed Ali is the only man to have twice regained the World Heavyweight boxing title.
The letter most in use in the English language is the letter “E” and the letter “Q” is used the least.
Contrary to popular belief alcohol does not warm the body but reduces body heat rapidly.
Every minute, twelve cars are manufactured in the USA.
Turtles have no teeth.
If goldfish are left in a darkroom for a long period, they will frequently turn white.
The Ostrich is the largest of living birds. It stands eight feet tall and weighs over 300 pounds.
In 24 Hours, average healthy adult breaths 23,000 times.
All mammals, except man and monkey are colour blind.
The centre of the earth is almost 4000 miles beneath our feet.
You can see the stars from the bottom of a well even in daylight.
The largest ship in the world is a French oil tanker that is nearly 415 metres long, almost as long as Sydney harbour bridge.
Beethoven was half deaf most of his life. He was completely deaf when he composed his greatest work, the Ninth Symphony.
Holland has the densest population per square mile of any nation in the world.
A wingless orthopteran insect can survive in a frozen state in the Arctic for months, but dies if exposed to the warmth of a human hand.
A kangaroo can hop at an estimated speed of 41 km per hour.
Salt was once a very precious commodity, so much so that many people were paid their wages in salt, hence the word ‘SALARY’
The lowest valued note in the world is the Hong Kong 1 cent note of which 1,200
Equal f 1.00
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Fascinating Facts
A diamond is a piece of pure carbon, just as is soot in the chimney but in crystal form. It is 80times as hard as the next hardest substance which is corundum.
The clock tower that supports the famous clock “BIG BEN” at the House of Parliament in London is 320 feet high. The bell from which the clock gets its name, weighs 13.5 tons.
If all the oceans on earth dried up the rock salt remaining would be enough to build a wall a mile thick and 18 miles high all around the equator.
The largest magnet in the world is earth itself, because the hot nickel and iron at its core pull everything towards it.
Do you know that cattle fish has three hearts, two of which are placed at the base of gills and third is at central heart?
The world’s tallest mountain, even higher than Mt. Everest is Mauna Koa an underwater mountain which rises 33,476 feet and has its peak on the island of Hawaii.
The Dead Sea ( Actually a lake 45 miles long and 10 miles wide) is so salty that it is impossible to drown in it unless you are held under water. On the other hand, the Baltic is the least salty sea in the world.
The world’s highest mountain, Mt. Everest were dropped into the deepest part of the ocean, water more than a mile deep would still be flowing above its summit.
Twice a year, on March 21st and September 22nd all places on earth have equal day and night – twelve hours long each. These are called EQUINOXES.
If all the stars in the Milky Way had names, anyone trying to say their names one after the other would take 4,000 years, even if they could say one name every second without ever stopping.
No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves.
Women can weep over the slightest grief and frequently, most men can not. And more men have peptic ulcer and heart condition than women in every society. Such stress related diseases are there in man because, in display of daring, he holds emotional tears rather than let them flow easily and freely.
During its entire life time a house fly never travels more than a few hundred feet from the place where it was born.
A humming bird beats, or flaps its wings up to 90 times a second, or over 5,000 times a minute.
There is one place in the world where you can find trees with square trunks. This is in Panama, a few kilometers to the north of Panama Canal. When such a tree is fallen its age is counted not by rings, but by squares.
In Spitzbergen, Norway at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a half months.
George Washington, the first President of United States, was a champion wrestler and long jumper.
From 13th June, 1948 to 1st June, 1958 a citizen of Los Angeles hiccoughed 160,000,000 times. People sent 60,000 suggestions for cures.
A fly moves its wings at the rate of 330 strokes a second.
The muscles required for an Alligator to open its jaws are so weak; a man can keep them closed with his hands.
Half a kilo of cotton has been spun into more than 3,300 kilometers of yarn.
Bungalows are named after the Hindi word “BANGLA” which means belonging to Bengal.
The muscles of human jaw exert a force of over 219 Kg.
The nail on our middle finger grows fastest. The nail on the thumb grows slowest.
An ounce of gold can be beaten into a sheet covering 9.3 square meters, or drawn into 80.5 Km (50 Miles) of wire.
Draftsmen have to make 27,000 drawings for the manufacture of a new car.
The giant bamboos of south-east Asia can grow almost 1 meter in 24 hours.
The clock tower that supports the famous clock “BIG BEN” at the House of Parliament in London is 320 feet high. The bell from which the clock gets its name, weighs 13.5 tons.
If all the oceans on earth dried up the rock salt remaining would be enough to build a wall a mile thick and 18 miles high all around the equator.
The largest magnet in the world is earth itself, because the hot nickel and iron at its core pull everything towards it.
Do you know that cattle fish has three hearts, two of which are placed at the base of gills and third is at central heart?
The world’s tallest mountain, even higher than Mt. Everest is Mauna Koa an underwater mountain which rises 33,476 feet and has its peak on the island of Hawaii.
The Dead Sea ( Actually a lake 45 miles long and 10 miles wide) is so salty that it is impossible to drown in it unless you are held under water. On the other hand, the Baltic is the least salty sea in the world.
The world’s highest mountain, Mt. Everest were dropped into the deepest part of the ocean, water more than a mile deep would still be flowing above its summit.
Twice a year, on March 21st and September 22nd all places on earth have equal day and night – twelve hours long each. These are called EQUINOXES.
If all the stars in the Milky Way had names, anyone trying to say their names one after the other would take 4,000 years, even if they could say one name every second without ever stopping.
No solar eclipse can last longer than 7 minutes 58 seconds because of the speed at which the sun moves.
Women can weep over the slightest grief and frequently, most men can not. And more men have peptic ulcer and heart condition than women in every society. Such stress related diseases are there in man because, in display of daring, he holds emotional tears rather than let them flow easily and freely.
During its entire life time a house fly never travels more than a few hundred feet from the place where it was born.
A humming bird beats, or flaps its wings up to 90 times a second, or over 5,000 times a minute.
There is one place in the world where you can find trees with square trunks. This is in Panama, a few kilometers to the north of Panama Canal. When such a tree is fallen its age is counted not by rings, but by squares.
In Spitzbergen, Norway at one time of the year the sun shines continuously for three and a half months.
George Washington, the first President of United States, was a champion wrestler and long jumper.
From 13th June, 1948 to 1st June, 1958 a citizen of Los Angeles hiccoughed 160,000,000 times. People sent 60,000 suggestions for cures.
A fly moves its wings at the rate of 330 strokes a second.
The muscles required for an Alligator to open its jaws are so weak; a man can keep them closed with his hands.
Half a kilo of cotton has been spun into more than 3,300 kilometers of yarn.
Bungalows are named after the Hindi word “BANGLA” which means belonging to Bengal.
The muscles of human jaw exert a force of over 219 Kg.
The nail on our middle finger grows fastest. The nail on the thumb grows slowest.
An ounce of gold can be beaten into a sheet covering 9.3 square meters, or drawn into 80.5 Km (50 Miles) of wire.
Draftsmen have to make 27,000 drawings for the manufacture of a new car.
The giant bamboos of south-east Asia can grow almost 1 meter in 24 hours.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Fascinating Facts
- If all the blood vessels in your body were straightened out and placed end to end, they would be 1,00,000 miles long, long enough to go round the equator four times.
- Some Japanese households keep fish which start dashing out the aquarium a few hours before an earthquake.
- There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and colour of chocolate.
- The most widely cultivated fruit in the world is the apple. The second is the pear.
- Neutron Bomb is a nuclear weapon, which kills people by radiation, even inside armoured vehicles, but leaves behind buildings, etc., intact.
- The elephant is the only animal that has been taught to stand on its head.
- If a rope were made out of strands of long hair, it would be strong enough to lift an automobile.
- Your brain will stop growing in size when you are about 15 years old.
- If the lever ever stops working, a person will die within 8 to 24 Hours.
- The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.
- A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon.
- An average person drinks about 16,000 gallons of water during his life time.
- A butterfly has got 12,000 eyes.
-“Mahabharatha” contains almost three million words.
- A snail can travel over a razor-blade without cutting itself.
- It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.
- One tone of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 30,000 tonnes of coal.
- There are 206 bones in the human body.
- The human mouth contains more bacteria than any other orifice in the body.
- One fifth of the oxygen we inhale is used up by the cells in the brain.
- Man’s three pound brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in the universe.
- Our nerves transmit messages at up to 300 ft per second.
- The ostrich’s legs are so powerful that one kick can kill a man.
- A dog can hear high frequency sounds, which the human ear can not.
- A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
- Two normal kidneys contain 2 million tiny blood filters which filter 50 gallons of blood every day!
- A fish’s heart has two chambers.
- The size of a newly born kangaroo is 2.5 cm.
- It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- A zebra’s stripes are as individual as human fingerprints. No two zebras striped alike.
- When you were only a fertilized egg – you were about the size of the head of a pin!
- The humming bird can fly backwards, sideways, forwords and hover motionless for up to an hour.
- Minus 40Deg C and minus 40Deg F are same
- Some Japanese households keep fish which start dashing out the aquarium a few hours before an earthquake.
- There is a butterfly found in Brazil that has the smell and colour of chocolate.
- The most widely cultivated fruit in the world is the apple. The second is the pear.
- Neutron Bomb is a nuclear weapon, which kills people by radiation, even inside armoured vehicles, but leaves behind buildings, etc., intact.
- The elephant is the only animal that has been taught to stand on its head.
- If a rope were made out of strands of long hair, it would be strong enough to lift an automobile.
- Your brain will stop growing in size when you are about 15 years old.
- If the lever ever stops working, a person will die within 8 to 24 Hours.
- The human heart pumps 1.5 million gallons of blood a year.
- A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon.
- An average person drinks about 16,000 gallons of water during his life time.
- A butterfly has got 12,000 eyes.
-“Mahabharatha” contains almost three million words.
- A snail can travel over a razor-blade without cutting itself.
- It takes about 48 hours for your body to completely digest the food from one meal.
- One tone of uranium produces the same amount of energy as 30,000 tonnes of coal.
- There are 206 bones in the human body.
- The human mouth contains more bacteria than any other orifice in the body.
- One fifth of the oxygen we inhale is used up by the cells in the brain.
- Man’s three pound brain is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter known in the universe.
- Our nerves transmit messages at up to 300 ft per second.
- The ostrich’s legs are so powerful that one kick can kill a man.
- A dog can hear high frequency sounds, which the human ear can not.
- A scientist who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human soul weighs 21 gms.
- Two normal kidneys contain 2 million tiny blood filters which filter 50 gallons of blood every day!
- A fish’s heart has two chambers.
- The size of a newly born kangaroo is 2.5 cm.
- It is impossible to sneeze and keep your eyes open at the same time.
- Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
- A zebra’s stripes are as individual as human fingerprints. No two zebras striped alike.
- When you were only a fertilized egg – you were about the size of the head of a pin!
- The humming bird can fly backwards, sideways, forwords and hover motionless for up to an hour.
- Minus 40Deg C and minus 40Deg F are same
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
FACTS ABOUT INDIA
. India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.
. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
. The World’s first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
. 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.
. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 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 the earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
. The value of “pi” was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were formulated by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10 to the power of 6 where as, Hindus used numbers as big as 10 to the power of 53 with specific names as early as 5000BC during the Vedic period.
. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10 to the power of 12.
. According to the Geological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagadeesh Bose and not Marconi.
. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
. According to Saka King Rudradaman-l of 150BC a beautiful lake called ‘Sudarshana’ was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya’s time.
. Chess – (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like caesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipments were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, aetiology, 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 place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
. India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
. The World’s first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
. 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.
. The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 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 the earth to orbit the sun: (5th century) 365.258756484 days.
. The value of “pi” was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians.
. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were formulated by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10 to the power of 6 where as, Hindus used numbers as big as 10 to the power of 53 with specific names as early as 5000BC during the Vedic period.
. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10 to the power of 12.
. According to the Geological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagadeesh Bose and not Marconi.
. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
. According to Saka King Rudradaman-l of 150BC a beautiful lake called ‘Sudarshana’ was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya’s time.
. Chess – (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like caesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 surgical equipments were used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, aetiology, 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 place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
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