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In the 14th century the Black Death killed 75,000,000 people. It was carried by fleas on the black rat.
90% of those who die from hurricanes die from drowning.
Dogs’ only sweat glands are between their paw pads
Dogs DO have better low-light vision than humans because of a special light-reflecting layer behind their retinas
Cat urine glows under a black-light!
Most lipstick contains fish scales!
The original name for the butterfly was ‘flutterby’!
The opposite sides of a dice cube always add up to seven!
The world’s termites outweigh the world’s humans 10 to 1!
An average human heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
A flush toilet exists that dates back to 2000 BC.
According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
Albert Brooks’s real name is Albert Einstein.
Alexander the Great was an epileptic.
Ancient drinkers warded off the devil by clinking their cups.
Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
Despite the hump, a camel’s spine is straight.
Earth is the only planet not named after a God.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Human hair and fingernails do not continue to grow after death.
Hummingbirds can’t walk.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
Jean-Claude Van Damme was the alien in the original “PREDATOR” in almost all the jumping and climbing scenes.
Men leave their hotel rooms cleaner than women do.
Nine pennies weigh exactly one ounce.
Oak trees do not have acorns until they are fifty years old or older.
Polar bear fur is not white, it’s clear.
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The Chinese ideogram for ‘trouble’ depicts two women living under one roof’.
The ‘Hundred Years War’ lasted 116 years.
The largest eggs in the world are laid by a shark.
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the world every year!
While performing her duties as queen, Cleopatra sometimes wore a fake beard.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas casinos.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
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Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they cant find any food!
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
About 3000 years ago, most Egyptians died by the time they were 30!
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
Slugs have 4 noses!
Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!
Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes!
Americans consume almost half of the world’s annual chocolate products
Every Russian and American space voyage has included chocolate bars.
Chocolate is not particularly high in caffeine. You would have to eat ten chocolate bars to get the same amount of caffeine as you find in a single cup of coffee.
Chocolate is good for you — unfortunately, its additives aren’t! Pure cocoa powder is full of iron and antioxidants. Add sugar or butter, though, and the calories begin to mount.
In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
Human body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
More germs are transferred shaking hands than kissing.
The fastest speed a falling raindrop can hit you is 18mph.
Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.
One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth.
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- The ideal dimension for ship stability is a length six times that of the width.
- Female mosquitoes are non- vegetarian in nature and continue their existence by taking the blood of human-beings and other animals.
- Only in the last century have we discovered that there are towering mountains and deep trenches in the depths of the sea.
- Female mosquitoes are responsible for the spreading of the infectious diseases like Malaria, Dengue fever and Chikungunia etc.
- Washing soda: chemically it is Hydrated Sodium Carbonate.
- Chemically Cooking soda is Sodium Bicarbonate.
- If ornaments prepared with pure gold (24 carrots) does not give much brightness and also not so attractive, that is why, copper is added to the gold to prepare the ornaments (making it to 22 carrots), which are very shinning. These are more popular in India.
- There are 29 bones present in our head.
- Those who are pregnant after 35 years will have the 1 in 27 chance of giving delivery of twins.
- Carbon Dioxide is used in fire-extinguish devices.
- The male mosquitoes are vegetarians and live on eating the lives of the plants and the trees.
- Tongue of the blue whale’s weight is equal to the total body weight of the elephant.
- Rats and horses can’t have the power of vomiting, which is why the rats can’t survive, even after taking the small quantity of zinc sulphate(rat-poisoning).
- Taking 1 chips pocket per day is equal to taking 5 liters of oil in a year.
- The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.
- Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.
- Wilhelm Rontgen won the first Nobel Prize for physics for discovering X-rays in 1895.
- Christian Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967 – the patient lived for 18 days.
- Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- One million, million, million, million, millionth of a second after the Big Bang the Universe was the size of a …pea.
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Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).
The typewriter was invented in 1829, and the automatic dishwasher in 1889.
No matter its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
Hydrofluoric acid will dissolve glass.
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.
The hottest planet in the solar system is Venus, with an estimated surface temperature of 864 F (462 C).
The longest living cells in the body are brain cells which can live an entire lifetime.
The Cerebrum, also called the forebrain, is responsible for our language, memory, movement and all. As you’re reading this and trying to understand it, you’re using your Cerebrum.
Each carbon nucleus (containing six protons and six neutrons) is made up from three nuclei of helium.
It was not until 1926 that Pneumatic tyres surpassed solid tyres in numbers used on vehicles.
The normal energy used by our brain is 0.1 calories per minute, and could go up to 1.5 during activities such as puzzle-solving.
The diamond is the mineral as found in nature. There is no known material of greater hardness on Earth, so in order to carve a diamond would have to use another diamond.
The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader.
The pistol of a flower is its only protections against insects.
H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water
Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes them perspire.
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Kickboxing is an effective way for loosing some extra flab and weight. By combining both Cardiovascular kickboxing and aerobic kickboxing and consistently following the routine people can achieve great results in less time. The craze of weight loss is found more in women and various fitness centers have taken a note of it and have introduced kickboxing in gyms.
Cardio should be practiced for an hour daily to achieve best results. It is unlike other forms of exercises and one can take a breather anytime they want. Apart from work outs eating right is also essential. Choose right form of food that is low in fat and has nutritional values. One must as well remember to drink a lot of water before and after the exercise so that you don’t feel dehydrated. By following the correct methods one will encounter an increase in energy in the first week and weight loss will be apparent by the third week.
Kickboxing also helps to relieve stress thus increasing self confidence and all this can be achieved by learning simple self defense techniques. It helps you bring out the anger buried into you. One must understand that releasing anger is very much important, because if it is not taken out it might affect first your mind and then your body. So one can just punch or kick out all the anger without even hurting anyone’s sentiments.
There is another fact which you might be surprised to know, it was always considered that kickboxing is a no-no for pregnant women, but there are a few trainers who themselves have practiced and taught kickboxing till their ninth month. Of course, the kicks and punches can’t be hard hitting as one regularly does. You need to reduce the amount of strength you put in. Few gynecologists now a days approve of this. But if you are pregnant keep a few things in mind, incase your doctor doesn’t allow you to practice kickboxing please do not practice, incase the doctor agrees then inform your instructor that you are pregnant so you are properly looked after while practicing and made to drink a lot of water. But practicing kickboxing also depends on your health and how you feel each day.
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Kitchen design flow consists of quite a number of techniques. However, the most popular is the straight line. Just like the name suggests, materials move steadily from one point heading to the other without overlapping. This kitchen design is common since it helps to make the cooking process faster. The designer in charge is normally aware of the things that are being added and the ones that are leaving the kitchen hence making it easy to carry out the desired programs.
The straight line design is recommended for use in those kitchens that have limited space. The design can be placed against the wall and tailored to suit the duties of the user. This style is also flexible because if the space available is not adequate to hold all the foods that you are preparing, then you can change it into a parallel flow. This is another style that is popular and easy to use.
Parallel designs include:
Back to back: This is a central island that is positioned that has two parallel lines. Some people prefer to erect a short wall between the two walls. This is a safety measure that helps to reduce the clutter of the utensils from the kitchen. It also helps to prevent spilled water from flowing to the other side. Nonetheless, the design has its own weakness since washing becomes difficult.
The plumbing in this style is placed in a centralized location. They can be placed on one side of the counter and be shared by both sides of the counter.
Face to face: A centrally located island separates two straight lines of counters. This island is sometimes made large to accommodate a working table. The design is suitable with places where there are a lot of people to be served, like a school. The supervision of the style is suitable but the workers are forced to work with their backs facing each other.
on August 7, 2010 | Filed Under Interesting Facts | Leave a Comment
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Animation is the art of creating a film by rapidly moving pictures. A sequence of pictures is moved very quickly to create an optical illusion. This occurs due to the fact that the human brain takes time to process the images seen, which creates an illusion that the image is in motion. Animation can be done in both 2 dimension and 3 dimension platform.
Animation can be traced as far as cave paintings of earlier eras to flip books from the past century. The cave paintings include sequence of pictures depicting motion. Flip books are books with sequence of pictures on every page, which create an illusion of motion when the book is flipped through very quickly. After this, came the “cartoons” which were short films with basic animation. The cartoons gained popularity with children. Earlier they were silent films. Shortly after, sounds and voices were integrated into the film.
A great deal of hard work and time is involved in every animation sequence. After the basic layout of the story, script and such, the key frames are made. These frames need to be done for each character in the film. The key frames include images and models of characters in each position required in the film like sitting, standing, sleeping, crouching etc. Some 20 frames are required per second and 2 frames are shown together as a picture. So, for a short film of one minute approximately 600 pictures are required.
The animators need to go into a lot of detailing to make sure the characteristics of each frames are as required. Also, the frames have been disintegrated to such an extent that even a hair of the model is animated according to the scene required. Nowadays, with the advance in technology, it has become easier and less time consuming to make the animation frames. This has also upgraded the quality of the films now being created.
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These days when music of Bollywood industry is affecting people and considered conventional in India, popularity of Devotional Songs is also not less. Devotional music has proved its popularity by having the business of around Rs. 1 billion a year. After film music, devotional music generates maximum sales and it is expecting to get increase in coming years. Devotional music not only has good physical sales of CD but people are also downloading these songs on mobile.
According to Times Music, devotional music has 30% more sales than any other kind of music and because of this they release out devotional music albums almost every month. Some albums released by Times music are “Krishna forever”, “Living with Sai”, etc.
According to Hindu religion, basic concept of these songs came from Sama Veda. These songs are sung by devotees in a group and have repetition of various words and phrases. It tells us about various glories and acts of Gods and Goddesses that they had in their lives on earth.
Devotional music is the only kind of music about which we can say that it is very compulsory in life. In India, at the time of festivals devotional music is played in every home. Even on regular basis around 90% people in our country listen to these songs in morning. People speak different languages in different parts of India so this music is also available in different languages.
New singers are getting popular quickly by recording this type of music. There is an example of Sanjeev Sharma from New Delhi who bagged a contract with Venus music before 5 years and created so many albums of this kind. He became very popular by accepting singing as career.
So, devotional songs are very informative, popular and easy so that everyone can sing it and people’s mind get relax by listening to the devotional songs.
on August 2, 2010 | Filed Under India Facts | Leave a Comment
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India is the world’s largest, oldest, continuous civilization.
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.
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.
The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
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.
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.
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.
IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof. Jagdish Bose and not Marconi.
The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
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.
Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India. Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10**53(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 10**12(10 to the power of 12).
Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.
The World’s first university was established in Takshashila 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.
India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
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.
India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
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Men’s hairstyles are evolving with time, many haircuts might have become popular and lots of haircuts have disappeared down the alley of time. This depended on culture, availability, outlook of people and many more points. Today’s Bollywood celebrities also endorse many different kinds of hairdo’s and constantly try to shuffle with new kinds of hairstyles, so that their style doesn’t sport a stagnant look, and many of these hairstyles have climbed the staircase of popularity.
Faux – hawk: one of the most popular haircuts for men, is the faux – hawk hairstyle, it is a general Mohawk hairdo accentuating a little twist in contemporary taste. If the Faux – hawk is allowed to outgrow for a long time, it might display a shaggy look to your hairstyle. However, this is what faux – hawk had to endorse, the complete phenomena of this hairstyle speaks that it is a very popular haircut for men all over the world, and it is popular in men irrespective of the age difference and various other boundaries not concerned. Many Indian young people would like to prefer have a haircut that a particular celebrity is sporting and these are a sight to visualize.
Crew – cuts military style: This particular crew cut military style is a haircut needing the least maintenance, and thus these can be easily ranked as one of the most popular hairstyles for Indian men.
If one wants to get a haircut a lot, it should be appropriate to your personality. There are many various styles of hairdos for men available, and one can choose from an unimaginable list of options. One of the best ways to check out a popular haircut is to just notice the crowd, and the young people in it. A haircut is not just a haircut in this modern world, it is an important aspect defining your personality and the person you are.
Resource box: the article states above gives you a brief description of some of the most famous haircuts for men. These haircuts are popular as well as add a charisma to the personality.
on August 5, 2010 | Filed Under Human Facts | Leave a Comment
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The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
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.
There are 206 bones in the adult human body and there are 300 in children (as they grow some of the bones fuse together).
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.
The heaviest human brain ever recorded weighed 5 lb. 1.1 oz. (2.3 kg.)
By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you can’t sink in quicksand.
Children grow faster in the springtime.
The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.
The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.
The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat
It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.
It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don’t appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).
Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
The pancreas produces Insulin.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.
After spending hours working at a computer display, look at a blank piece of white paper. It will probably appear pink.
Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our bodies.
Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months.
A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.
During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.
Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.
Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.
If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.
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It takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length.
Gold-wrapped chocolate coins commemorate St Nicholas who gave bags of gold coins to the poor.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
The smile is the most frequently used facial expression. A smile can use anywhere from a pair of 5 to 53 facial muscles.
The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
In most advertisements, including newspapers, the time displayed on watch is 10:10.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
Bingo is the name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box.
Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.
Wayne’s World was filmed in two weeks.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
Canada is an Indian word meaning “Big Village”.
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Trees receive an estimated 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere and only 10% from the soil.
Trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
A tree does not reach its most productive stage of carbon storage for about 10 years.
One of the tallest soft wood trees is the General Sherman, a giant redwood sequoia of California. General Sherman is about 275 ft or 84 m high with a girth of 25 ft or 8 m.
Dendrochronology is the science of calculating a tree’s age by its rings.
A mature birch tree can produce up to 1 million seeds per year.
Trees receive an estimated 90% of their nutrition from the atmosphere and only 10% from the soil.
Trees grow from the top, not from the bottom as is commonly believed. A branch’s location on a tree will only move up the trunk a few inches in 1000 years.
The largest area of forest in the tropics remains the Amazon Basin, amounting to 81.5 million acres.
Tree leaves help trap and remove tiny particles of soot and dust which otherwise damages human lungs.
By creating shade, trees moderate temperatures both globally and in the micro-climates of cities and counties.
Trees create buffers to reduce noise.
The presence of trees in urban neighborhoods has been linked to less crime.
Tree roots stabilize soil and prevent erosion.
The cottonwood tree seed is the seed that stays in flight the longest. The tiny seed is surrounded by ultra-light, white fluff hairs that can carry it on the air for several days.
Tree rings provide precise information about environmental events, including volcanic eruptions.
One acre of trees removes up to 2.6 tons of carbon dioxide each year.
Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water, as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
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