Some Interesting Facts ...

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.

--The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long.

--Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

--A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.

--A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.(the Wright brother's invented the airplane).

--There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.

--One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

--The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192

--Slugs have four noses.

--Sharks can live up to 100 years.

--Mosquitos are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.

--Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

--About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday.

--The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887.

--The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.

--Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency .

--Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints.

--There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human.

--It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.

--The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002.

--Octopus have three hearts.

--If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange

--The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.

--1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old.

--The body has 2-3 million sweat glands.

--Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs.

--Tiger shark embroyos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.

--Most cats are left pawed

--250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

--A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant .

--You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!

--Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours.

--An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce.

--Bone is five times stronger than steel.

Secrets Of Sleeping

WHIPPED OCEAN ..

Suddenly the shoreline north of Sydney were transformed into the Cappuccino Coast .. Foam swallowed an entire beach and half the nearby buildings, including the local lifeguards' centre, in a freak display of nature at Yamba in New South Wales .
One minute a group of teenage surfers were waiting to catch a wave, the next they were swallowed up in a giant bubble bath. The foam was so light that they could puff it out of their hands and watch it float away



Boy in the bubble bath: Tom Woods, 12, emerges from the clouds of foam after deciding that surfing was not an option
It stretched for 30 miles out into the Pacific in a phenomenon not seen at the beach for more than three decades. Scientists explain that the foam is created by impurities in the ocean, such as salts, chemicals, dead plants, decomposed fish and excretions from seaweed. All are churned up together by powerful currents which cause the water to form bubbles. These bubbles stick to each other as they are carried below the surface by the current towards the shore. As a wave starts to form on the surface, the motion of the water causes the bubbles to swirl upwards and, massed together, they become foam.
The foam "surfs" towards shore until the wave "crashes", tossing the foam into the air.



Whitewash: The foam was so thick it came all the way up to the surf club
"It's the same effect you get when you whip up a milk shake in a blender," explains a marine expert. "The more powerful the swirl, the more foam you create on the surface and the lighter it becomes." In this case, storms off the New South Wales Coast and further north off Queensland had created a huge disturbance in the ocean, hitting a stretch of water where there was a particularly high amount of the substances which form into bubbles. As for 12-year-old beachgoer Tom Woods, who has been surfing since he was two, riding a wave was out of the question. "Me and my mates just spent the afternoon leaping about in that stuff," he said.
"It was quite cool to touch and it was really weird. It was like clouds of air - you could hardly feel it."

Some Unknown Facts...

1. What programming language is GOOGLE developed in??????

Google is written in Asynchronous java-script and XML, or its acronym
Ajax,


2. What is the expansion of YAHOO?
Yet another Hierarchy of Officious Oracle


3. What is the expansion of ADIDAS?
ADIDAS- Always Do I Dream About Sports

"ADIDAS" is All Day I Dream about Sports.



4. Expansion of Star as in Star TV Network?
Satellite Television Asian Region



5. What is expansion of "ICICI?"

Industrial credit and Investments Corporation of India"



6. What does "baker's dozen" signify?
A baker's dozen consists of 13 items - 1 more than the items in a normal
Dozen



7. The 1984-85 seasons. 2nd ODI between India and Pakistan at Sialkot-
India 210/3 with Vengsarkar 94*. Match abandoned. Why?
That match was abandoned after the ppl heard the news of indira Gandhi
Being killed..?



8. Who is the only man to have written the National Anthems for two different countries?
Rabindranath Tagore who wrote national anthem for two different countries one is India's National anthem and another one is for
Bangladesh-(Amar Sonar Bangla)



9. From what four word ex-pression does the word `goodbye` derive?
Goodbye comes from the ex-pression: 'god be with you',



10. How was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known?
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu is none other Mother Teresa



11. Name the only other country to have got independence on Aug 15th??
South Korea



12. Why was James Bond Associated with the Number 007???
'cause 007 is the ISD code for Russia (or the USSR, as it was known
During the cold war)??



13. Who faced the first ball in the first ever One day match?
Geoffrey Boycott



14. Which cricketer played for South Africa before it was banned from
International cricket and later represented Zimbabwe?
John Traicos



15. The faces of which four Presidents are carved at Mt.Rushmore?
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham
LincoThis

Amaizing Fact

The first kind of PENCIL was a bunch of GRAPHITE sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick. JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes. Did you know that the average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English with just one pencil? Amazing fact! Now imagine an eraser that could match it !!!

This is what an old airplane looked like. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called the Kitty Hawk

Did you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn't have any pedals? People walked it along

The first metal bicycle was called the High-Wheel or Penny Farthing. People had a hard time keeping their balance on this type of bicycle

Did you know the first toy balloon, made of vulcanized rubber, was thought of by someone in the J.G.Ingram company in London, England in 1847.

9pin bowling was made up in Germany during the Medieval ages

Did you know the largest fish ever caught was the Whale Shark? It was 59ft long. These fish can weigh up to 15 tons

Help desk realities

PEOPLE WONDER WHY THE CALL CENTRE GUYS R PAID SO
MUCH......FOR JUST BEING ON THE PHONE. TAKE A LOOK:

1). Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the
Open Desktop."

Customer "Ok."

Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"

Customer: "No."

Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a
pop-up menu?"

Customer "No."

Tech Support:: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have
done up until this point?"

Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I
wrote 'click'."

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2) Customer: "I received the software update you sent,
but I am still getting the same error message."

Tech Support:: "Did you install the update?"

Customer: "No. Oh, am I supposed to install it to get
it to work?"

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3).Customer:: "I'm having trouble installing Microsoft
Word."

Tech Support:: "Tell me what you've done."

Customer: "I typed 'A:SETUP'."

Tech Support:: "Ma'am, remove the disk and tell me
what it says."

Customer:: "It says '[PC manufacturer] Restore and
Recovery disk'."

Tech Support:: "Insert the MS Word setup disk."

Customer:: "What?"

Tech Support: "Did you buy MS word?"

Customer: "No..."

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4).Customer:: "Do I need a computer to use your
software?"

Tech Support:: ?!%#$

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5).Tech Support:: "Ok, in the bottom left hand side of
the screen, canyou see the 'OK' button displayed?"

Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"

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6) Tech Support:: "What type of computer do you have?"

Customer:: "A white one."

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7). Tech Support:: "Type 'A:' at the prompt."

Customer:: "How do you spell that?"

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8). Tech Support: "What's on your screen right now?"

Customer: "A stuffed animal that my boyfriend got me
at the grocery store."

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9). Tech Support:: "What operating system are you
running?"

Customer: "Pentium."

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10). Customer: "My computer's telling me I performed
an illegal abortion."

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11).Customer: "I have Microsoft Exploder."

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12).Customer: "How do I print my voicemail?"

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13). Customer: "You've got to fix my computer. I
urgently need to print document, but the computer
won't boot properly."

Tech Support: "What does it say?"

Customer: "Something about an error and non-system
disk."

Tech Support: "Look at your machine. Is there a floppy
inside?"

Customer: "No, but there's a sticker saying there's an
Intel inside."

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14). Tech Support: "Just call us back if there's a
problem. We're open 24 hours."

Customer: "Is that Eastern time?"

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15). Tech Support:: "What does the screen say now?"

Customer: "It says, 'Hit ENTER when ready'."

Tech Support:: "Well?"

Customer: "How do I know when it's ready?"

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16). A plain computer illeterate guy rings tech
support to report that his computer is faulty.

Tech: What's the problem?

User: There is smoke coming out of the power supply.

Tech: You'll need a new power supply.

User: No, I don't! I just need to change the startup
files.

Tech: Sir, the power supply is faulty. You'll need to
replace it.

User: No way! Someone told me that I just needed to
change the startup and it will fix the problem! All I
need is for you to tell me the command.

10 minutes later, the User is still adamant that he is
right. The tech is frustrated and fed up.

Tech: Sorry, Sir. We don't normally tell our customers
this, but there is an undocumented DOS command
that will fix the problem.

User: I knew it!

Tech: Just add the line LOAD NOSMOKE.COM at the end of
the CONFIG.SYS.

Letme know how it goes.

10 minutes later.

User: It didn't work. The power supply is still
smoking.

Tech: Well, what version of DOS are you using?

User: MS-DOS 6.22.

Tech: That's your problem there. That version of DOS
didn't come with NOSMOKE. Contact Microsoft and
ask them for a patch that will give you
the file. Let me know how it goes.

1 hour later.

User: I need a new power supply.

Tech: How did you come to that conclusion?

User: Well, I rang Microsoft and told him about what
you said, and he started asking questions about the
make of power supply.

Tech: Then what did he say?

User: He told me that my power supply isn't compatible
with NOSMOKE.

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17) customer care officer:I need a product
identification no: right
now and may I help u in finding it out?
Cust: sure
CCO: could u left click on start and do u find 'My
Computer'?
Cust: I did left click but how the hell do I find
your computer?

NEVER LIGHT CANDLE in AC ROOM.

A friend in our group passed away last week due to carbon-monoxide poisoning.

It happened when she lighted an aroma theraputic candle for the night in a room with air-conditioner on.

Due to lack of oxygen in the room, the burning of the candle cannot fully oxidize & thus forms dangerous carbon monoxide.

Carbon monoxide will prevent oxygen exchange in the lungs, resulting in the person dozing off to a state of unconsciousness & eventually death in less than an hour, depending on the room size..

Wanna a Ride ???????????

Something you may never see in your lifetime.....

Shot from the USS HONOLULU (Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine) at the Arctic Circle, 280 miles from the North Pole.

Try This............

Try this......

Make a new folder or rename existing folder with names as following in any Windows OS.

· Aux

· Nul

· Con



Surprised????

Something to think about....

There was a one hour interview on CNBCwith WarrenBuffet, the second richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

1. He bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!
2. He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.
3. He still lives in the same small 3-bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.
4. He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.
5. He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.
6. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis. He has given his CEO's only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any of your share holder's money.
Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.
7. He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch Television.
8. BillGates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. BillGates did not think he had anything in common with WarrenBuffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gatesmet him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of WarrenBuffet.
9. WarrenBuffetdoes not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.


His advice to young people: 'Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself and Remember:
A. Money doesn't create man but it is the man who created money.
B. Live your life as simple as you are.
C. Don't do what others say, just listen them, but do what you feel good.
D. Don't go on brand name; just wear those things in which u feel comfortable.
E. Don't waste your money on unnecessary things; just spend on them who really in need rather.
F. After all it's your life then why give chance to others to rule our life.'

Excited ??

pupil of a human eye grows 10 times its original size when excited

!!U Know Everything !!

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





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




Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing .












"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
(Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)








The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).









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

There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:

"abstemious" and "facetious."

(Yes, admit it, you are going to say . a e i o u)





TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

(All you typists are going to test this out)





A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.













A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
(Some days that's about what my memory span is)










A snail can sleep for three years.

(I know some people that could do this too.)




An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.














Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.









Women blink nearly twice as much as men








Now you know everything!

Do U Know......

=> Technology is not infallible. An estimated two million lab mistakes are made
in the 100,000 laboratories in the U.S. every day

=> Thomas Edison, "the Wizard of Menlo Park," established an "invention factory," the first
industrial research laboratory, with the hope of producing a new invention every ten days.
In one 4-year period, he obtained 300 patents, or one every five days.

=> Lassie is the favorite movie dog of animal experts, beating out Benji and Beethoven, according to a survey of Humane Society directors conducted by stuffed animal manufacturer Dakin, Inc.