1. Chinese ladies painted their nails even 5000 years ago.
2. Little Hollywood secret: wear yellow visually enhances the owner of the shooting, Green - decreases.
3. Do Indian women of the tribe of Panama San Blas big nose is a sign of beauty. They draw the bow longitudinal black stripes that visually lengthen the nose. Men have a big nose is a sign of leadership. More Interesting and informative facts after the break...
4. In India, men can wear pajamas to the output. Pyjamas - is a common daily attire.
5. In the UK, 18th-century secular dandies wore tight trousers so that the dressing pants stretched on special pegs, and a gentleman jump up in them.
6. In 1500 BC shaved head was considered a model of feminine beauty. Egyptian women removed every hair with gold tweezers and rubbing your scalp to shine.
7. Chow Chow - the only dog that has dark-blue tongue. As the Chinese say, she licked the sky. In addition she has such an unusual color language only Shar-Pei and the polar bear. Languages other dogs are pink.
8. Kangaroo rat never drinks water. Like its relatives, marsupial mice, they have a water source within yourself, highlighting the liquid from the food and inhaled air.
9. According to research conducted at the Institute for the Study of animals in Washington, like humans, dogs and cats can be right-handed and left-handed.
The triangular base of the soft part of a horse's hoof called the frog.
10. In long days on the planet were carried dragonflies the size of a hawk.
11. Eggs, which is a hummingbird-sized pills Tik-Tak, and all of the bits of the slot can fit into a walnut shell.
12. The biggest gold fish reach a length of 38 centimeters and are found they are in Hong Kong. The name of the fish - Bruce.
13. The largest American alligator in length was more than 6 meters - it can be freely along the length of 3 people fit!
14. The largest invertebrate - coconut crab, whose diameter is "paws on" can reach a meter, and his claws he can crush coconuts.
15. Arctic jellyfish tentacles giant can reach up to 36 meters in length.
16. In Ethiopia's Surma tribe is custom in which a girl for some time before the wedding, remove the lower teeth, pierced lip and insert it into the clay disk. From time to time to replace the disk similar, but larger diameter. And then the wedding? And though the larger the diameter of the disc - the more the dowry the bride, because it symbolizes a level of wealth drive the bride's family.
17. The concept of the wedding night in Albania is very conditional. There is a tradition in which the three days and three nights in the newly formed woman must resist the attacks on her husband's execution of family duty. This is done in order to confuse evil spirits.
18. It's simple on the island Trombrian that close to New Guinea. Want to get married? Eat with a future spouse of one plate in front of other members of the tribe. Ate? Now you're a married man!
19. In the 13th century established the standards for pasta Pope.
20. Romans as a seasoning often used Garuma - special paste made of slightly rotten fish.
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Sunday, March 27, 2011
13 Amazing Facts About Sharks
01. A shark does not have one bone in its body. Its skeleton is made up of cartilage. Cartilage is a tough material, like the material that shapes your ear. 12 More facts after the break...
02. The Swell Shark, found in New Zealand, barks like a dog.
03. Weird things have been found inside a shark, such as a nail, a bottle of wine, a treasure chest, coats, a suit of armor, a drum and a torpedo.
04. A shark’s skin is covered with denticles, which are small, razor-sharp teeth. Denticles can be removed from a shark’s body. After the small teeth are removed, the remaining skin can be made into very strong leather. A pair of shoes made from shark leather can last up to four times longer than shoes made with cowhide.
05. Sharks have very good senses. Sometimes a shark is called “a swimming nose”, for its great sense of smell. Sharks can easily detect prey that is in the sand, as well as at night. A shark also has a remarkable sensitivity to vibrations in the water. It can feel the movements made by other animals that are hundreds of feet away. They can hear sounds from thousands of feet away. Sharks can tell the direction from where the sound is coming from, too.
06. Sharks cannot eat Puffer Fish, because the Puffer Fish inflates like a balloon and pokes the shark’s mouth with its sharp needles.
07. Most sharks give birth to their babies. Only a few sharks lay eggs. Most sharks have six to twelve babies at a time, but the Hammerhead and Tiger Shark can have as many as 40 babies at a time.
08. Most species of sharks can swim up to 20-40 miles per hour. A Mako Shark has been recorded at more than 60 miles per hour.
09. A shark has three types of fins. They have two dorsal fins on their back, one fin beneath their body, called the pectoral fin (not all species have it), and the caudal fin is the tail.
10. The Whale Shark is the biggest fish in the world.
11. A Whale Shark has more than 4,000 teeth, but each is less than 1/8 inch long. A shark may go through 1,000 sets of teeth during its lifetime. When a shark loses a tooth, one replaces it.
12. A Whale Shark weighs about 90,000 pounds. The second largest shark is the Basking Shark. It can be as much as 40 feet long.
13. Question: What is more dangerous to people - a shark or a wasp/bee? Answer: wasp/bee Every year, 100 people die from wasp or bee stings, yet hundreds of millions of people go swimming, and sharks kill only about six people. Only about 25 sharks have been known to actually attack people. Every year, people kill thousands of sharks. They are killed for food, oil, skins and sport.
02. The Swell Shark, found in New Zealand, barks like a dog.
03. Weird things have been found inside a shark, such as a nail, a bottle of wine, a treasure chest, coats, a suit of armor, a drum and a torpedo.
04. A shark’s skin is covered with denticles, which are small, razor-sharp teeth. Denticles can be removed from a shark’s body. After the small teeth are removed, the remaining skin can be made into very strong leather. A pair of shoes made from shark leather can last up to four times longer than shoes made with cowhide.
05. Sharks have very good senses. Sometimes a shark is called “a swimming nose”, for its great sense of smell. Sharks can easily detect prey that is in the sand, as well as at night. A shark also has a remarkable sensitivity to vibrations in the water. It can feel the movements made by other animals that are hundreds of feet away. They can hear sounds from thousands of feet away. Sharks can tell the direction from where the sound is coming from, too.
06. Sharks cannot eat Puffer Fish, because the Puffer Fish inflates like a balloon and pokes the shark’s mouth with its sharp needles.
07. Most sharks give birth to their babies. Only a few sharks lay eggs. Most sharks have six to twelve babies at a time, but the Hammerhead and Tiger Shark can have as many as 40 babies at a time.
08. Most species of sharks can swim up to 20-40 miles per hour. A Mako Shark has been recorded at more than 60 miles per hour.
09. A shark has three types of fins. They have two dorsal fins on their back, one fin beneath their body, called the pectoral fin (not all species have it), and the caudal fin is the tail.
10. The Whale Shark is the biggest fish in the world.
11. A Whale Shark has more than 4,000 teeth, but each is less than 1/8 inch long. A shark may go through 1,000 sets of teeth during its lifetime. When a shark loses a tooth, one replaces it.
12. A Whale Shark weighs about 90,000 pounds. The second largest shark is the Basking Shark. It can be as much as 40 feet long.
13. Question: What is more dangerous to people - a shark or a wasp/bee? Answer: wasp/bee Every year, 100 people die from wasp or bee stings, yet hundreds of millions of people go swimming, and sharks kill only about six people. Only about 25 sharks have been known to actually attack people. Every year, people kill thousands of sharks. They are killed for food, oil, skins and sport.
Friday, October 23, 2009
INTERESTING FACTS
Newzeland is home for 4 million people and 70 million sheep.
Fish and insects do not have eyelids – their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.
In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
An Ostrich can run up to 70 km/hour.
On average you breathe 23,000 times a day.
The liver is the largest of human body’s internal organs.
Earth is not round; it is slightly pear shape.
Summer on Uranus lasts 21 years. But so does the winter.
Earth is the only planet in solar system, not named after a God.
An average 13,000 earth quakes are located each year.
Due to earth’s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
The word Malaria comes from the words Mal and Aria, which means bad air.
The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was Rome.
The first parachute jump from an airplane was made by captain Berry at st.Loius Missouri in 1912.
UK Postal stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps on 1st May, 1840.
The videophone was invented by Bell Laboratories in 1927.
The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 Novel Vivian grey.
Currency notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.
The dollar $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollack.
Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
Radio waves travel to much faster than sound waves that broadcast voice can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.
Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
Iceland has no military and no military expenses.
Still the Bible is the world’s best selling book.
The first English dictionary was written by Samuel Johnson in 1755.
There are more than 10 billion web pages on the internet.
The term COP comes from Constable on Petrol, which is a term used in England.
Dolphins don’t automatically breathe; they have to tell themselves to do it.
Honey bees never sleep.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The muddiest river in the world is the Hwang ho in China. It carries so much silt you could build a vast wall 131 ft. high and 20 ft. wide all around the world.
On mount waialeale in Hawaii it rains nearly everyday in fact there are about only 15 days every year when it doesn’t rain.
The earth’s surface is made up of ‘Plates’. These are moving slightly all the time. When pressure builds up between two plates, the result is an earth quake.
Fish and insects do not have eyelids – their eyes are protected by a hardened lens.
In Denmark there are twice as many pigs as people.
An Ostrich can run up to 70 km/hour.
On average you breathe 23,000 times a day.
The liver is the largest of human body’s internal organs.
Earth is not round; it is slightly pear shape.
Summer on Uranus lasts 21 years. But so does the winter.
Earth is the only planet in solar system, not named after a God.
An average 13,000 earth quakes are located each year.
Due to earth’s gravity, it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters.
The word Malaria comes from the words Mal and Aria, which means bad air.
The first city in the world to have a population of more than one million was Rome.
The first parachute jump from an airplane was made by captain Berry at st.Loius Missouri in 1912.
UK Postal stamps are the only stamps in the world not to bear the name of the country of origin.
Great Britain was the first country to issue postage stamps on 1st May, 1840.
The videophone was invented by Bell Laboratories in 1927.
The word millionaire was first used by Benjamin Disraeli in his 1826 Novel Vivian grey.
Currency notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen.
The dollar $ sign was designed in 1788 by Oliver Pollack.
Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.
Radio waves travel to much faster than sound waves that broadcast voice can be heard sooner 18,000 km away than in the back of the room in which it originated.
Water expands by about 9% as it freezes.
Iceland has no military and no military expenses.
Still the Bible is the world’s best selling book.
The first English dictionary was written by Samuel Johnson in 1755.
There are more than 10 billion web pages on the internet.
The term COP comes from Constable on Petrol, which is a term used in England.
Dolphins don’t automatically breathe; they have to tell themselves to do it.
Honey bees never sleep.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
The muddiest river in the world is the Hwang ho in China. It carries so much silt you could build a vast wall 131 ft. high and 20 ft. wide all around the world.
On mount waialeale in Hawaii it rains nearly everyday in fact there are about only 15 days every year when it doesn’t rain.
The earth’s surface is made up of ‘Plates’. These are moving slightly all the time. When pressure builds up between two plates, the result is an earth quake.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
White House Facts
* Though Barack Obama is the first Black occupant of the White House, the mansion has a far older Afro-American connection. It was built by Black labourers, both slave and free.
* There are 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms and 6 levels in the White House. There are also 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases and 3 elevators.
* The kitchen's open-hearth fireplace was replaced by a cooking stove in 1801. Today it has 5 full-time chefs. It can serve dinner to 140 guests and hors d'oeuvres to more than 1000 people.
* To cover the outer surface of the White House requires 570 gallons of paint.
* Electricity was installed in 1891. The House acquired its first electric refrigeratotr in 1926 and air-conditioning in 1933.
* Central Heating System was fitted in 1837 and running hot water piped into the first family's second floor bathroom in 1853; first hydraulic elevator in 1881, the first electric elevator in 1898.
* There are 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms and 6 levels in the White House. There are also 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases and 3 elevators.
* The kitchen's open-hearth fireplace was replaced by a cooking stove in 1801. Today it has 5 full-time chefs. It can serve dinner to 140 guests and hors d'oeuvres to more than 1000 people.
* To cover the outer surface of the White House requires 570 gallons of paint.
* Electricity was installed in 1891. The House acquired its first electric refrigeratotr in 1926 and air-conditioning in 1933.
* Central Heating System was fitted in 1837 and running hot water piped into the first family's second floor bathroom in 1853; first hydraulic elevator in 1881, the first electric elevator in 1898.
Monday, July 13, 2009
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT INDIA & INDIANS.
There are 3.22 million Indians in America.
38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
12% of Scientists in America are Indians.
36% of NASA employees are Indians.
34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL employees are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.
23% of Indian community in America is having GREEN-CARD.
Some of these facts may be known to you.
These facts were recently published in a German Magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY.
38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
12% of Scientists in America are Indians.
36% of NASA employees are Indians.
34% of MICROSOFT employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL employees are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.
23% of Indian community in America is having GREEN-CARD.
Some of these facts may be known to you.
These facts were recently published in a German Magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY.
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