Although the
Pony Express was one of the most famous chapters in U.S. history, it only
lasted one year, from 1860-61.
Amazon ants
(red ants found in the western U.S.) steal the larvae of other ants to keep as
slaves. The slave ants build homes for and feed the Amazon ants, who cannot do
anything but fight. They depend completely on their slaves for survival.
Amelia
Earhart designed the first lightweight luggage for air travel.
American
Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in
first-class.
American and
Russian space flights have always included chocolate.
American car
horns beep in the tone of F.
American
chocolate manufacturers use about 1.5 billion pounds of milk -only surpassed by
the cheese and ice cream industries.
Americans
are responsible for about 1/5 of the world's garbage annually. On average,
that's 3 pounds a day per person.
Americans
consume 42 tons of aspirin per day.
Americans
consumed over 3.1 billion pounds of chocolate in 2001, which is almost half of
the total world's production.
Americans
drink about five billion bottles and cans of soda, and about a billion and a
half pounds of coffee every year.
Americans
drink over a billion pounds of coffee every year and around five million
bottles of soda.
Americans
eat more bananas than any other fruit: a total of 11 billion a year.
Americans on
average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Americans
spend approximately $25 billion each year on beer.
Americans
spend more than $5 billion a year on cosmetics, toiletries, beauty parlors and
barber shops.
Americans
spent an estimated $267 billion dining out in 1993.
Americans
spent over $360 million in 1982 to avoid having bad breath.
Americans
use about 100 million pounds of tea leaves every year.
Americans
use over 16, 000 tons of aspirin a year.
Americans,
on average, eat 18 acres of pizza in one day.
America's
first nudist organization was founded in 1929, by 3 men.
America's
first stock exchange was the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, established in 1791.
Among
primitive people the soul normally is said to escape through the mouth or nose.
In the Celebes, when a person is very sick, his friends will often attach fish
hooks in certain places. If the soul tries to escape, it gets hooked.
Among
transsexuals who choose sex-change operations, females who elect to become
males are reportedly happier and better adjusted after the procedures than
males who elect to become female.
Among words
consisting only of Roman numeral letters, the "highest scoring" words
in English are MIMIC (2,102) and IMMIX (2012).
An adult
lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or
reunites scattered members of the pride.
An adult
male ostrich, the world's largest bird, can weigh up to 345 pounds.
An adult
porcupine has approximately 30,000 quills on its body, which are replaced every
year.
An African
American chef in Albany, NY is thought to have been the inventor of potato
chips sometime in 1865. Unfortunately, nobody knows his name.
An albatross
can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.
An American
cow called Fawn was not afraid of flying. In May 1963, she was swept up by a
tornado and carried half a mile, only to land safely in another farmer's field.
Five years later, another tornado carried her over a bus. She survived this
too, and lived to the ripe old age of 25.
An American
urologist bought Napoleon's penis for $40,000.
An animal
epidemic is called an epizootic.
An ant
always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
An ant can
survive for up to two days underwater.
An ant's
sense of smell is as good as a Dog's.
An apple
tree is at its prime when its about 50 years old. The United States produces
about 100 million barrels of apples a year. That's a lot of old trees.
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Abe
Lincoln's mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Ms.
Lincoln drank the milk.
About 10% of
the world's population is left-handed.
About
10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you.
About 100
people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
About 20% of
bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them
because of human activity.
About
200,000,000 M&Ms are sold each day in the United States.
About 24% of
the total ground area of Los Angeles is said to be committed to automobiles.
About 55% of
all movies are rated R. About 500 movies are made in the US and 800 in India
annually.
About 70% of
Americans who go to college do it just to make more money.
About 75% of
the people in the U.S. live on 2% land.
About 80% of
the city was burned in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
About a
third of all Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
About
one-tenth of the earth's surface is permanently covered with ice.
Abraham
Lincoln had to go across the street to the War Department to get news from the
battlefield because there was no telegraph in the White House.
Abraham
Lincoln's ghost is said to haunt the White House.
Absinthe is
another name for the herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) and the name of a
licorice-anise flavored green liqueur that was created at the end of the 18th
century, and manufactured by Henry-Louis Pernod. Called the 'green Muse' it
became very popular in the 19th century, but was eventually banned in most
countries beginning in 1908. The reason is the presence of the toxic oil
'thujone' in wormwood, which was one of the main ingredients of Absinthe.
Absinthe seemed to cause brain lesions, convulsions, hallucinations and severe
mental problems. Thujone was the culprit, along with the fact that Absinthe was
manufactured with an alcohol content of 68% or 132 proof.
Absolutely
pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.
According to
a global survey in 1997 by Durex Condoms Canadians are the world's fourth worst
lovers. The worst three slots belong to South Africa, Russia, and Poland.
According to
a recent survey, more Americans lose their virginity in June than any other
month.
According to
an Old English system of time units, a moment is considered to be one and a
half minutes.
According to
bar sales across the U.S., here are the top 15 cocktails: 1) Dry martini, 2)
Manhattan, 3) Whiskey sour, 4) Bloody Mary, 5) Gimlet, 6) Daiquiri, 7) Tom
Collins, 8) Old Fashioned, 9) Margarita, 10) Screwdriver, 11) Bacardi, 12)
Stinger, 13) Harvey Wallbanger, 14) Gin & Tonic, and 15) Rum & Coke
According to
Bristol zoo, the Howler monkey's growl is so loud, it can be heard 5km (3.3
miles for u Americans) away.
According to
German researchers, the risk of heart attack is higher on Monday than any other
day of the week.
According to
Hammurabi's Code, the penalty for medical malpractice was to cut off the
doctor's hands.
According to
Hawaiian lore, the earth mother Papa mated with the sky father Wakea to give
birth to the Hawaiian Islands.
According to
Illinois state law, it is illegal to speak English. The officially recognized
language is "American."
According to
L. Frank Baum, the name Oz was thought up when he looked at his filing cabinet
and noticed one drawer marked A-G, a second tagged H-N, and a third labeled
O-Z.
According to
legend, when Burmese women are making beer, they need to avoid having sex or
the beer will be bitter.
According to
National Geographic, Mt. Everest grows about 4 millimeters a year: the two
tectonic plates of Asia and India, which collided millions of years ago to form
the Himalayas, continue to press against each other, causing the Himalyan peaks
to grow slightly each year
According to
Playboy, more women talk dirty during sex than men.
According to
Playboy, the most popular sexual aid is erotic literature.
According to
Scandinavian folklore, trolls only come out at night because sunlight would
turn them to stone.
According to
statistics, Australian women are the most likely to have sex on the first date.
According to
the 1900 U.S. Census, there were: 596,000 carpenters, 280,000 laundresses,
220,000 blacksmiths, 134,000 tailors, 102,000 shoemakers, 42,000 porters,
37,000 stonecutters, 25,000 millers, 8,000 bootblacks, and 7,000 furriers
According to
the film's animators, you'll see 6,469,952 black spots every time you watch 101
Dalmatians.
According to
the Guinness Book of World Records, the Finnish word SAIPPUAKIVIKAUPPIAS a
soapstone seller is the longest known palindrome in any language.
According to
the Guinness Book of World Records, the single-seeded fruit of the giant fan
palm, or Lodoicea maldivica, can weigh 44 lbs. Commonly known as the double
coconut or coco de mer, it is found wild only in the Seychelles in the Indian
Ocean.
According to
the International Labor Organization, a member of the labor force is someone
between the age of 15 and 64.
According to
the Kinsey Institute, the biggest erect penis on record measures 13 inches. The
smallest tops off at 1 3/4 inches.
According to
the Population Council, people overwhelmingly tend to marry partners who live
near them.
According to
the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the most common job in the United States in the
1890s was a farmer. Today, it’s a salesman.
According to
the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, two out o
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A pineapple
is a berry.
A poem
written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
A polar
bears skin is black. Its fur is actually clear, but like snow it appears white.
A pole
vaulter, when he lands, may absorb up to 20,000 pounds of pressure per square
inch on the joints of his tubular thigh bones.
A polecat is
not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.
A poll of
3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is
speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of
heights.
A porpoise
swims slowly in a circle as it sleeps.
A
Portsmouth, Ohio law ranks baseball players with "vagrants, thieves and
other suspicious characters."
A pound of
grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
A pregnant
goldfish is called a twit
A quarter of
raw potato placed in each shoe at night will keep the leather soft and the
shoes smelling fresh and clean.
A quarter of
the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.
A queen bee
lays about 1,500 eggs on an average day.
A raisin
dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from
the bottom of the glass to the top.
A rat can go
without water longer than a camel can.
A
rattlesnake's fangs fold inward when its mouth is closed so it doesn't bite
itself.
A recent
study indicates when men crave food, they tend to crave fat and salt. When
women crave food, they tend to desire chocolate.
A Red
Giant(a kind of exploded star) has a lower density than any vacuum here on
earth
A rhinoceros
horn is made of compacted hair.
A Saudi
Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
A scientific
report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup
of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The
antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease.
It's good for you!
A scientist
who weighed people immediately before and after death concluded that the human
soul weighs 21 gms.
A scrum in
rugby is equivalent of a hockey face-off, except that it involves all playing
the forward position on both teams.
A SEAL's
weapon of choice is the Heckler and Koch MP-5 submachine gun.
A shark can
detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A shark can
grow a new set of teeth in a week.
A shark is
the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A shrimp's heart
is in its head.
A single
drop of water contains one hundred billion billion atoms.
A single
share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public,
would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
A snail can
actually glide over the sharp edge of a knife or razor without harming itself.
This has something to do with the mucus it produces.
A snail can
have about 25,000 teeth.
A snail can
sleep for 3 years.
A snail can
travel over a razor blade without cutting itself.
A sneeze can
exceed the speed of 100 mph.
A soccer
ball has 32 panels.
A
speleologist studies caves.
A
Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
A
spremologer collects trivia.
A starfish
can turn its stomach inside out.
A state law
in Illinois mandates that all bachelors should be called master, not mister,
when addressed by their female counterparts.
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A crocodiles tongue
is attached to the roof of its mouth.
A cucumber is 96%
water.
A Dalmatian is the
only dog that can get gout.
A day on the planet
Mercury is twice as long as its year.
A decree declares
that anyone caught stealing soap must wash himself with it until it is all used
up.
A dentist invented
the Electric Chair.
A device invented sometime
around the time of the birth of Jesus as a primitive steam engine by the Greek
engineer Hero is used today as a rotating sprinkler.
A diamond will not
dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.
A dime has 118 ridges
around the edge. A quarter has 119.
A dog can hear high
frequency sounds, which a human ear cannot.
A donkey will sink in
quicksand but a mule will not.
A dragonfly can fly
25 mph.
A dragonfly has a
life span of 24 hours.
A dragonfly is also
known as "devil's darning needle", "horse stinger" and
"devil's steelyard".
A Fag is to work hard
or to tire by strenuous activity and cigarettes are sometimes called Fags
A fagot is a bundle
of sticks or a bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be shaped by rolling or
hammering at high temperature.
A father Emperor
penguin withstands the Antarctic cold for 60 days or more to protect his eggs,
which he keeps on his feet, covered with a feathered flap. During this entire
time he doesn't eat a thing. Most father penguins lose about 25 pounds while
they wait for their babies to hatch. Afterward, they feed the chicks a special
liquid from their throats. When the mother penguins return to care for the
young, the fathers go to sea to eat and rest.
A father sea catfish
keeps the eggs of his young in his mouth until they are ready to hatch. He will
not eat until his young are born, which may take several weeks.
A female ferret will
die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
A female mackerel
lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.
A female swine or sow
will always have an even number of teats or nipples.
A fetus acquires
fingerprints at the age of three months.
A fingernail or
toenail takes about 6 months to grow from base to tip.
A fish's memory span
is 3 seconds.
A five and a half year
old weighing 250 pounds was exhibited at a meeting of the Physical Society of
Vienna on December 4, 1894. She ate a normal diet and was otherwise in good
health. The problem: she wasn't able to sweat.
A flea can jump 350
times is own body length. (say..you jumping the length of a soccer field)thanx
seraph
A flock of sheep
grazed during Woodrow Wilson's term. Their wool was sold to raise money for the
Red Cross during World War I.
A fly always jumps
backwards for a quick getaway when you try to hit it.
A fly hums in the
middle octave, key F.
A
foal is a baby horse.
A full moon is nine
times brighter than a half moon.
A full-grown bear can
run as fast as a horse.
A full-grown pumpkin
has about 15 miles of roots.
A ghost writer pens
an anonymous book.
A giant squid has
eyes that can grow up to 20 inches in diameter. (Now think of how big your
computer screen is..)
A giraffe and rat can
go longer without water than a camel can.
A giraffe can clean
its ears with its 21-inch tongue. i know some people who can do some amazing
stuff too.
A goldfish has a
memory span of 3 seconds.
A googol is a 1
followed by 100 zeros. Mathematician Edward Kasner supposedly asked his nephew
Milton Sirotta to suggest a name for the number, and he came up with this word.
A grasshopper needs a
minimum temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit in order to be able to hop.
A group od geese on
the ground is a gaggle, a group in the air is a skein.
A group of crows is
called a murder.
A hamlet is a village
without a church and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.
A hard-boiled egg
will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not.
A healthy
(non-colorblind) human eye can distinguish between 500 shades of gray.
A healthy individual
releases 3.5 oz. of gas in a single flatulent emission, or about 17 oz. in a
day.
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85,000,000 tons of
paper are used in the United States each year.
28% of Africa is
classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin once
won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while
peeling onions will keep you from crying.
90% of bird species
are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.
90% of New York City
cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.
98% of all murders
and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
98% of the weight of
water is made up from oxygen.
99% of the pumpkins
sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
A "2 by 4"
is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
A "Blue
Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
A "hairbreadth
away" is 1/48 of an inch.
A "jiffy"
is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
A
"quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and
gossip.
A 1,200-pound horse
eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A 1.5 oz. milk
chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230
calories.
A 10-gallon hat
actually only holds about 3/4 gallon.
A 14-year old French
girl had extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock
over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received
an electrical shock.
A 17 year old girl
from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th
June'66.
A 6 pound sea-hare
can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.
A 7-year study, which
concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by
rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.
A acre of coffee
trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to
approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
A B-25 bomber crashed
into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
A Baboon called
"Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
A bat is the only
mammal that flies.
A bathometer is an
instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
A bean has more DNA
per cell than a human cell
A bee could travel 4
million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain
from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy
that honey properly.
A beaver's teeth
never stop growing.
A bibliophile is a
collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
A bird requires more
food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A Blue Earth,
Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the
telephone unless monitored by a parent.
A blue whales heart
only beats nine times per minute.
A body decomposes
four times as fast in water than on land.
A Boeing 747's
wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A bowling pin only
needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
A broken clock is
right at least twice a day.
A butterfly can look
at you through 12,000 eyes.
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85,000,000 tons of
paper are used in the United States each year.
28% of Africa is
classified as wilderness. In North America, its 38%.
Charlie Chaplin once
won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
Chewing gum while
peeling onions will keep you from crying.
90% of bird species
are monogamous; only 3% of animals are.
90% of New York City
cab drivers are recently arrived immigrants.
98% of all murders
and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.
98% of the weight of
water is made up from oxygen.
99% of the pumpkins
sold in the US end up as jack-o-lanterns.
A "2 by 4"
is really 1 1/2 by 3 1/2.
A "Blue
Moon" is the second full moon in a calendar month (it is rarely blue).
A "hairbreadth
away" is 1/48 of an inch.
A "jiffy"
is actually a proper time unit for 1/100th of a second
A
"quidnunc" is a person who is eager to know the latest news and
gossip.
A 1,200-pound horse
eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
A 1.5 oz. milk
chocolate bar has only 220 calories. A 1.75 oz. serving of potato chips has 230
calories.
A 10-gallon hat
actually only holds about 3/4 gallon.
A 14-year old French
girl had extraordinary electrical power. With a gentle touch she could knock
over heavy pieces of furniture and people in physical contact with her received
an electrical shock.
A 17 year old girl
from Miami, Florida started to sneeze on 4th January'66 ant continued till 8th
June'66.
A 6 pound sea-hare
can lay 40,000eggs in a single minute.
A 7-year study, which
concluded in the summer of 2000, found that 33 U.S. deaths were caused by
rottweilers, pit bulls were responsible for 27 deaths.
A acre of coffee
trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to
approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
A B-25 bomber crashed
into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building on July 28, 1945.
A Baboon called
"Jackie" became a private in the South African army in World War I.
A bat is the only
mammal that flies.
A bathometer is an
instrument for indicating the depth of the sea beneath a moving vessel.
A bean has more DNA
per cell than a human cell
A bee could travel 4
million miles (6.5 million km) at 7 mph (11 km/h) on the energy it would obtain
from 1 gallon (3.785 liters) of nectar, or it could just sit down on and enjoy
that honey properly.
A beaver's teeth
never stop growing.
A bibliophile is a
collector of rare books. A bibliopole is a seller of rare books.
A bird requires more
food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
A Blue Earth,
Minnesota, law declares that no child under the age of twelve may talk over the
telephone unless monitored by a parent.
A blue whales heart
only beats nine times per minute.
A body decomposes
four times as fast in water than on land.
A Boeing 747's
wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
A bowling pin only
needs to tilt 7.5 degrees to fall.
A broken clock is
right at least twice a day.
A butterfly can look
at you through 12,000 eyes.
A Californian doctor
has set the record of eating 17 bananas in two minutes.
A Canadian tattoo
artist had 4,831 tattoos on his body.
A capon is a
castrated rooster.
A cat has 32 muscles
in each ear.
A cat has 4 rows of
whiskers.
A cat uses it's
whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
A chameleon can move
its eyes in two directions at the same time.
A chameleon's tongue
is twice the length of its body.
A Cheetah at full
speed takes strides of 8 meters.
A cheetah is the
fastest animal, clocked in at: 70mph.
A chef's hat is tall
and balloons at the top so as to counteract the intense heat in the kitchen.
The unique shape allows air to circulate around the scalp, keeping the head
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Stewardesses" is
the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
"Tautonyms"
are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.
"Taxi" is
spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and
Dutch.
"Teh" means
"cool" in Thai. (Pronounced "tay").
"The sixth sick
sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in
English.
"THEREIN"
is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive
letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and
herein.
"Underground"
is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters
"und." $203,000,000 is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
1 and 2 are the only
numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.
1 in 5,000 north
Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
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1 kg (2.2 pounds) of
lemons contain more sugar than 1 kg of strawberries.
1,525,000,000 miles
of telephone wire are strung across the Unites States.
1.7 litres of saliva
is produced each day. In Discovery Channel, its a quart.
10 percent of all
human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
10% of human dry
weight comes from bacteria
11% of the world is
left-handed.
111, 111, 111 X 111,
111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
1200 equals 1 pound
(72 rupees).
123,000,000 cars are
being driven on highways in the United States.
166,875,000,000
pieces of mail are delivered each year in the United States.
1959's A Raisin in
the Sun was the first play by a black woman to be produced on Broadway.
2 and 5 are the only
prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
203 million dollars
is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
22,000 checks will be
deducted from the wrong bank accounts in the next hour.
23% of all photocopier
faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their
buttocks.
25% of a human's
bones are in its feet.
259200 people die
every day.
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27%
of Americans believe we never landed on the moon.
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27% of U.S. male
college students believe life is "a meaningless existential hell."
3% of all mammals are
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It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to
Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.
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The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to
their having nine primary whiskers.
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The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed
by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal
notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on
those of Eva Braun.
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The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in
mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.
1. Twenty per cent of the world’s population, 1.17 to 1.33 billion people,
now use the Internet. North America (72%) has the highest
penetration, Africa (5%) the lowest.
2. Only 30 per cent (380 million) of Internet users are english-speaking, 14
per cent (180 million) speak chinese, 9 per cent (113 million) speak spanish.
46 million Internet users speak arabic.
3. China’s internet population increased by a third in 2006. According to
state news agency Xinhua, the total number of internet users in China has
reached 132 million, of which 52 million have broadband connections. [Source:
Guardian, December 2006]
4. Google’s market capitalisation is around $US180 billion, nearly three
times the size of News Corporation. Microsoft, Apple, Google and Amazon are all
in the Fortune 150 list.
5. According to Zenith Optimedia, between 2007 and 2010, internet adspend
will increase by 69% and raise its market share from 8.1% to 11.5%. About $US36
billion will be spent on Internet advertising globally in 2008, an increase of
24%.
6. Youtube is the world’s third largest site, behind Google and Yahoo. One
in five of the world’s internet users visit youtube each day. Nearly half of US
internet users report visiting a video-sharing site like Youtube at least once.
7. Britney Spears was the most sought after celebrity on Google in 2007 and
pilates was the most popular search in the fitness category. The most popular
who, what and how queries were who is god, what is love and how to kiss
8. Social networking is the fastest growing part of the Internet. There are
70 million active users on Facebook (the 8th most popular site in the world),
more than 14 million photos are uploaded daily. The fourth most popular
country for facebook id Turkey with 3.3% of users. Australia is 6th, 2.7%.
Meanwhile, a Sophos poll of 600 workers found that 43 per cent were unable to
access Facebook at work, while an additional seven per cent reported that use
of the site was restricted.
9. Last year, global digital music sales rose 40 percent to $US2.9 billion,
according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.
Downloaded music now makes up 15 percent of the recording industry's sales.
10. Movie downloads could grow tenfold by 2012 and reach $6.3 billion
worldwide during that period, according to a 2007 report by British market
research firm Informa Telecoms & Media.
11. The iTunes store was launched on 28 April 2003, since then it has sold
more than four billion tracks and over 125 million TV
episodes worldwide. It is now rivaling Wal-mart to be the biggest music
retailer in the US. 150 million iPods have been sold world-wide since the
iconic device first appeared in October 2001. Nearly forty percent of Americans
now own and iPod or other mp3 player.
12. Wikipedia is the 7th most popular website in the world. The english
version of wikipedia has more than 2.3 million articles. Over a third of online
US adults consult wikipedia.
13.There are over 100 million websites, 74 per cent are in the commercial or
.com domain
14. Total e-commerce sales in the US for 2007 were estimated at $136.4 billion,
an increase of 19.0 percent from 2006. Total retail sales in 2007 increased 4.0
percent from 2006. E-commerce sales in 2007 accounted for 3.4 percent of total
sales. E-commerce sales in 2006 accounted for 2.9 percent of total sales.
15. Core search engines Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, and Ask.com
collectively increased 15 percent in December 2007 in searches performed,
compared to a year earlier, serving 9.6 billion searches in December 2007.
16. Since the beginning of 2007, Sen. Obama has raised more than $US100
million online from Americans contributing $200 or less at a time, according to
data compiled by the Campaign Finance Institute (WSJ, 3 May)
17. In 2006, the average corporate email user received 126 messages a day,
up 55% from 2003, according to the Radicati Group, a Palo Alto market research
firm. By 2009, workers are expecting to spend 41% of their time just managing
emails. (WSJ, 27-11-2007)
18. More books are sold on the internet than any other product and the
number is increasing, research suggests. Polling company Nielsen Online
surveyed 26,312 people in 48 countries. 41% of internet users had bought books
online, it said. The largest percentage of people buying books in any country
was South Korea at 58%. Nielsen estimated that equated to 18m people. (BBC
21-01-2008). Twenty percent of US book sales and 17 percent of UK book sales
are now made online.
19. Nielsen says more than eight out of ten internet users purchased
something in the last three months. That is a 40% increase on two years ago, to
about 875 million shoppers. (BBC 21-01-2008)
20. Newspapers’ online audiences are rising at twice the rate of the general
internet audience. Newspaper Web sites attracted more than 66.4 million unique
visitors on average (40.7 percent of all Internet users) in the first quarter
of 2008, a record number that represents a 12.3 percent increase over the same
period a year ago, according to a custom analysis provided by Nielsen Online
for the Newspaper Association of America.
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The Most Interesting and Unusual
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Facetious
and abstemious are the only words that contain all the vowels in the
correct order.
"Adcomsubordcomphibspac"
is the longest acronym. It is a Navy term standing for Administrative
Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command.
"Almost"
is the longest commonly used word in the English language with all the
letters in alphabetical order.
"Flushable"
toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
"Billie
Jean" by Michael Jackson was the first video to air on MTV by a black
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In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes
in contact with Pepsi.
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The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a
shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located
in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
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The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from
gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.
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Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing
prehensile penises.
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Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even
though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of
the Toledo Post-Dispatch.
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Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve
the itching and swelling.
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The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the
fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.
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The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned
by Frank Sinatra.
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The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's
no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.
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Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say
"gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.
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Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak
like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the
sound.
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SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.
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Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of
whiskers.
· Replying more
than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's
system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.
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Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.
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The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in
Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.
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The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during
research into how bumblebees fly.
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You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17
percent bauxite.
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Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind
after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for
obvious reasons.
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Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.
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The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum
of a cadaver.
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The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests
who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would
instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch
them.
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A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of
singer Barry White.
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The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who
left his "signature" on the keyboard.
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The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour
period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane
concrete freeway.
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King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.
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Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche
and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under
the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high
winds.
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In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and
consequently died of starvation.
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Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons
for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the
project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.
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Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
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Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was
patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.
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Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a
three-hour baseball game.
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- 35.6% of internet users are
Asian.
- With average of 389 million
of internet surfers each month, Asia is the largest internet crowd among
other world regions.
- In Afirca, 3 out of 100 surf
the Internet.
- In Asia, 10 out of 100 surf
the Internet.
- In Europe, 38 out of 100 surf
the Internet.
- In Middle East, 10 out of 100
surf the Internet.
- In North America, 70 out of
100 surf the Internet.
- In Latin America, 16 out of
100 surf the Internet.
- In Australia, 53 out of 100
surf the Internet.
- Only 16.6% of world
population surf the internet.
- 1 billion users around the
globe are surfing the Internet every month.
- Amount of internet surfers in
Asia (389,392,28 mil) is 11 times the population of Australia (34,468,443
mil).
- 19% of internet users are
from United States (210,080,067 mil).
- Around 18 countries still
doesn’t have Internet connection.
- North Korea’s internet
penetration statistics is not publicized.
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By 2040 the internet will be useless according to astrologer Stefan Stenudd, who predicted on request of Microsoft the future of the worldwide network.
"From 2025 the web will start to evolve into a giant encyclopaedia". Which means it will become less important and will be overtook by other applications according to Stefan.
Today, 6th of august 2011, the internet or at least the World Wide Web has existed for about 20 years. There are reasons enough for Microsoft to research the www. Ten thousand internet users out twelve European countries were asked about their opinions on the internet and astrologer Stefan Stenudd was asked to give his "scientific" opinion on the future of the internet.
In the study, internet users answered security was there greatest concern while using the web. 42 percent of Europeans feared that they would lose the control of their private life on the net. 68 percent of the interviewed hoped that they would still be able to use the internet in the future without being monitored constantly. Remarkable 19 percent of Europeans hope that in the future the internet would be able to be transplanted in your brain so they would be able to use all collated information.
For the next nine years to come, 38 percent of Europeans believe that books, newspapers and magazines will gradually disappear and will all become digital via websites, apps and e-readers.
32 percent of all Europeans interviewed are convinced that shops in the High Streets will start to disappear and will have to make room for the online equivalents.
There is however good news as half of the Europeans are hopeful that everything offered online such as music, movies and games will be in High Definition. More than a quarter of the Europeans questioned would love to have the internet to predict their wishes and need.
Astrologer Stefun Stenudd sees the evolution of the World Wide Web very specific. He predicts that a period of big changes will arise which will start in 2012 and end in 2017. He goes on by predicting that after this the internet will become an incredible useful tool for professional activities, but will no longer be popular for individuals. In 2025 another big change will arise that will make the internet evolve to a giant encyclopaedia. This will make the web less important and will make other applications more important.
By 2040 the World Wide Web will no longer be useful.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6480583
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One of the major features that came along with the new iOS 4.1 update for iphone is the HDR Photography feature. HDR (High Dynamic Range) feature helps you take great photos with a wider range of light intensity.  But this feature is not available for the iphone 3GS. Here’s how to get the HDR Feature in iphone 3GS.
Will Strafach has developed a new fix that will help you get HDR Feature in iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G. If you need to apply the fix on your iphone, you’ll need to have a jailbroken iphone. Enable HDR Photos in iPhone 3GS & iPhone 3G#1) Search for " OpenSHSH " in Cydia and install OpenSHSH . #2) Next you need to get to the following files. (For iPhone 3GS Users)
/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N88AP.plist
(For iPhone 3G Users)
/System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app/N82AP.plist
#3) Now, Add a key with the name "hdr-image-capture” with a boolean value of "true” to the "capabilities” section of this property list. Save the plist. #4) Replace the original file your iphone with the modified version of the file using SSH.
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The most awaited vista like windows explorer for windows Xp is here. It gives the same eye candy you see in vista in Xp.The most interesting thing is that it needs only little resources.Allthe Windows Xp users can now get a vista explorer to their desktop now. As you see in the image the vista like address bar is also available in this nice piece of software. The search bar is embedded into it which helps to access your desired files quickly. And Above all the software is small as 334.34 kb in size.This product was developed by lee soft.The software is in it beta state so may have some minor bugs until the final and stable version is released so keep updated by subscribing now!!.
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You might have experienced many difficulties like ” Not able to Kill Running Application”, "Can’t close a Non Responding Application” etc. while working with windows. There are many such similar problems like that. Newbies will find it hard to solve these problem (not just the above two alone). It wont be easy for them to quickly solve these windows problems. So, here is a tool that has a collection of 70 useful commands which is embedded into one application for instant use. This tool will be a boon for the non-technical users.
Commands in Demand is a free handy tool for Windows 7, Vista and XP that has more than 70 commands that may be needed instantly for a purpose while working with Windows.
Commands in Demand comes with many easy shortcuts to terminate non-responsive applications, open a command prompt in a selected folder, restart Windows Explorer, view TCP/IP configuration settings, view/clear the clipboard, access system folders etc.
To make things easier Commands in Demand has categorized the commands according to were its commands are related. The commads are categorized as Application errors, Application visible window, Clipboard, Desktop, Devices, Files and Folders, Graphics, Icons, Internet, Memory and CPU, Network, System, SysTray, Taskbar, and Windows applications.
 HOW TO USE COMMANDS IN DEMANDThis tool is ver easy to use. Just install the application, run it, select the required category to execute the needed commands. Some of the Commands Available with Commands in Demand: » Applications’ Shortcuts creator to minimize applications in the System Tray.
» Clipboard real-time Editing
» Color Sample Picker
» Command Prompt starter in any
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As 3D printing has become more affordable the technology has started to become extremely popular with people who need to create accurate 3D models quickly and cheaply. Product designers, for instance, can use 3D printers to quickly produce models allowing them to easily test look and feel of concept designs in real world situations. Architects can easily create precision scale models of buildings, rather than spending days building them by hand. And vehicle manufacturers can develop and tweak new car designs quicker and cheaper than ever before. Consumer websites, such as 3D Creation Lab, already exist; allowing customers to design their own 3D models online, get them ‘printed’ and have them posted directly to you. Many even believe that, in the future, we will actually be able to design and ‘print’ out own furniture and perhaps even entire buildings. The technology behind 3D printing is not massively different to traditional inkjet printers except, instead of ink, 3D printer heads ‘print’ layers of plastic, resin, powder, paper, metal or even food. Yes, you read that last one correctly, there has even been a 3D printer created that uses chocolate. The process starts by creating a 3D model using special software. This can be done manually, or by using a state-of-art 3D scanner. These advanced 3D scanners work by capturing hundreds of images of an object every minute, using a geometric grid system to collect the 3D data. The data is then stitched back together by the scanner software, although human input is often required to tidy up the finished 3D image, removing noise, adding texture and color and filling in missing data. The final image is then transmitted to the 3D printer which ‘prints’ the image in much the same way a normal inkjet prints on paper, whilst also adding an additional 3rd axis in order to make the finished item three dimensional. 
Credit: Creative Tools
3D model of Dewalt saw created with a 3D printer With such amazing technology so readily available, you would imagine then that copyright infringement will soon be rife. Criminals around the world must be rubbing their hands at the thought of being able to simply point a scanner at an object and then create an exact replica. Well, maybe one day, but not just yet. Whilst 3D printing technology does indeed make it possible to replicate almost anything, that’s pretty much what you get – a replica. For starters different 3D printers work in different ways and so inputting the same information into each machine will produce several different results. Not only that but currently 3D printers are only available with a limited number of substrates, so for instance a scan of a piece of gold jewellery will be accurately replicated, but only in a limited number of materials. The unique quality of gold itself, much like many other materials, cannot yet be accurately reproduced. So whilst Scotland Yard can rest easy for now, who knows what the future will bring. As 3D printing technology continues to develop and more and more materials become available to print with, who knows where this technology will take us. Maybe we will indeed one day be able to print our own house or even create exact replicas of anything and everything. |
Last time we saw on how to root your Huawei U8160 aka Vodafone Smart Android phone and in this article we will be checking out on how you can install with the latest Cyanogen Mod 7.2 custom ROM firmware so that you can make the most of your Android smartphone. The main reason on why we prefer the custom ROM firmwares is because generally the custom ROM firmwares come along with host of added features which are missing in the default or factory firmwares. Please note that in the process of applying this cyanogen mod 7.2 firmware, you will need to root your phone and also the custom recovery image should be installed in your phone. 
In the process of this article we will also be discussing about on what are the things you need to do in the form of pre requisites before proceeding to the next page where we have summed up a detailed article on how to apply the update. Please note that before proceeding, you need to note down the exact firmware you are on currently so that just in case if you wish to revert back to the same, we will help you to move on to the same. Disclaimer: Neither we, nor developer should be held responsible for any damage happened to your device in the process of following the instructions mentioned in this article. It’s very unlikely that there will be any issues but just in case if at all there are any issues then we are committed to help you in solving the same.
Essential Pre Requisites: - All the data present in your phone should be backed up as in the process of applying this update, the data might get either lost or corrupted. With the help of below mentioned steps you can easily backup the same. After updating with this release, your PC Suite will no longer support the device as it’s in the custom ROM firmware.
SMS – Use "SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log - Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path "Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”
- Minimum charge left in the device should be at least 60% so as to ensure that device doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of firmware update.
- Disable all the antivirus suites in your computer and uninstall the same in your device as these tools generally tend to interrupt the process of firmware update.
- Enable the USB Debugging in your Vodafone SMART from the path "Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked as shown in the below screen capture.
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