Wednesday 11 May 2011

Facts of 8th day


1. McDonald's is the world's largest distributor of toys!

2. When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!

3. President George W. Bush is related to all other U.S. Presidents!

4. Austria was the first country to use postcards.

5. SONY was originally called 'Totsuken'.

6. The symbol on the 'pound' key (#) is called an octothorpe.

7. According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.

8. An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged.

9. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s voice, in the movie 'Hercules', was dubbed.

10. Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.

Facts of 7th day


1. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue!

2. In Florida, Penalty for horse theft is death by hanging.

3. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

4. The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.

5. Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.

6. The only food that cockroaches won’t eat are Cucumbers!

7. All polar bears are left handed

8. A person swallows approximately 295 times while eating dinner.

9. Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use fingerprints!

10. There are no ants in Iceland, Antarctica, and Greenland.

Facts of 6th day

 
1. Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies, which originated in India.

2. The world's highest cricket ground is in Chail, Himachal Pradesh. Built in 1893 after leveling a hilltop, this cricket pitch is 2444 meters above sea level.

3. India has the largest number of Post Offices in the world.

4. Until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds in the world.

5. Islam is India's and the world's second largest religion.

6. It is illegal to take Indian currency (rupees) out of India.

7. India leads the world with the most murders (32,719), with Russia taking second at 28,904 murders per year.

8. Many Indian wives will never say her husband’s name aloud, as it is a sign of disrespect. When addressing him, the wife will use several indirect references, such as “ji” or “look here” or “hello,” or even refer to him as the father of her child.

9. The national fruit of India is the mango. The national bird is the peacock, which was initially bred for food.

10. It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body.

Monday 9 May 2011

Facts of 5th day


1. Boys who have unusual first names are more likely to have mental problems than boys  with conventional names. Girls don't seem to have this problem.

2. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.

3. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

4. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.

5. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

6. A group of owls is called a parliament.

7. Eskimos use refrigerators to keep food FROM freezing.

8. There are 60,000 miles (97,000 km) blood vessels in every human.

9. Emergency number the Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find yourself out of coverage area of your mobile network and there is an emergency, dial 112and the mobile will search any existing network to establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly ...this number 112 can be dialed even while the keypad is locked. Try it out.


10. Hidden Battery power imagine your cell battery is very low, u r expecting an important call and u don't have a charger. Nokia instrument comes with reserve battery. To activate, press the keys *3370#Your cell will restart with this reserve and the instrument will show 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when u charge your cell next time.


Facts of 4th day

1. One thousand contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred   ninety-nine has an A.

2. The word four has four letters. In the English language there is no other number whose number of letters is equal to its value.


3. Sanskrit is the mother of all higher languages. Sanskrit is the most precise and therefore suitable language for the computer software - a report in Forbes magazine.

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


5. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order:                   “abstemious" and "facetious."

6. No word in the English language rhymes with "month".


7. The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.

8. "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.


9. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

10. Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!


Sunday 8 May 2011

Facts of 3rd day


  1. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

  1. The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is “feedback.”

  1. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is “uncopyrightable”.


  1. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch is 10:10

  1. The human brain is 80% water.


  1. Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right while women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

  1. India is one of only three countries that makes supercomputers (the US and Japan are the other two).


  1. India has the second largest community of software developers, after the U.S.

  1. A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.


  1. The "save" icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards.

Facts of 2nd day


  1. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

  1. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.


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

  1. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.


  1. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

  1. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.


  1. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

  1. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.
    Spades - King David
    Clubs - Alexander the Great,
    Hearts - Charlemagne
    Diamonds - Julius Caesar.


  1. If a statue of a person in the park 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 a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

  1. All polar bears are left handed.

Facts of 1st day


  1. Elephants are the only animal in the world who can't jump.

  1. Coca Cola is actually green before coloring is added to it.


  1. The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

  1. Ants never sleep!


  1. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother because they were both deaf.

     6.  "Go." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

  1. Butterflies taste with their feet.

  1. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.


  1. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.

  1. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.