Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tallest Man Fact
The world's tallest man ever recorded in the history of mankind - Robert Wadlow, was born in Alton, Illinois, in 1918, and was 6 feet tall by the time he was even eight years old. He suffered from the disorder Gigantism that makes the lower portions of the body extremely large, while the head and torso remain at normal sizes. This is caused by a pituitary gland tumor that excretes large amounts of growth hormone, resulting in the disorder that is technically called as acromegalic gigantism. He reached a final height of 8 feet 11 inches at the age of twenty-one years, and finally died of an inflamed leg.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
2012 Interesting Fact
2012 is expected to be year of great positive change. It is not the end of the world! Back in 1899 something was identified called Schumann Cavity Resonance. It is the heart beat or frequency of the Earth.
Since its discovery till 1986 this heart beat frequency was constant 7.8 Hertz per second. From 1986 it started to raise dramatically and in 1998 it was reported to be 10 hertz per second.
On other hand magnetic of the earth are dropping dramatically and it is expected they will reach zero point in 2012.
Maya calendar and other calendars end in 2012, but it is not the end of the world just beginning of the new one since every 26000 years Earth goes through grand cycle of evolution.
Facts About India Vs Pakistan Cricket Semifinal
The India vs Pakistan rivalry started in 1947 with the partition of Indian, leading to the creation of Pakistan and was made intense following the Kashmir Dispute and the conflicts and wars that took place between them. The animosity could not only be felt in the cricket matches but also in the political and diplomatic relations. The animosity is too intense in that any tension on the political or diplomatic front would lead to the cancellation of cricket tours to the countries.
The first India vs Pakistan match was played in 1952 from 16 to 18 October. India won the match 2-1 and was followed by draws in the next 10 tests. The first win for Pakistan was in the 1978-1979 series. In the 1980′s and 90′s teams from both countries played their matches in non-test playing countries like Canada, where the matches were known as the "Friendship Cup". The Indian tour to Pakistan scheduled for early 2009 was cancelled because of the tension between the two countries, following the Mumbai Terror Attacks.
With the 2011 Cricket World Cup taking place, many people will be looking forward for the intense India vs Pakistan semi final match that is set to take place on 30th of March. The games will be televised and many people will resort to internet sites where they will catch the game. The predictions vary from one person to another, despite the fact that India has 4-0 head to head lead against Pakistan. All the teams are well prepared to tackle each other for one objective; Winning, and they are looking up to their supporters from far and wide to support them and see them through the wins.
Watching an India vs Pakistan match is always a great pleasure. Just use the provided link if you want to watch the semifinal match of 2001 cricket world cup between India vs Pakistan .
Saturday, March 26, 2011
India vs Pakistan Semifinal..Interesting Fact to know
Its true that Pakistan has never ever won a single match against india in any of the world cup. Not even in any of the major tournament.
>India won aganist pakistan in 1996 World Cup Quarter Final played in Banglore.
>India won aganist pakistan in 2003 world cup played in Centurion.
>In the grand final of ICC T20 world cup 2007 between IND vs PAK again india won.
This was the one side of the picture now let’s see another side of the picture.In Mohali the stadium is known as PUNJAB CRICKET ASSOCIATION.
>pakistan has played alot against india in MOHALI. And the fixtures tell that Pakistan has never ever lost in MOHALI.
spectators will have an intresting match to watch.
Amazing Facts to know..
- No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
- Blueberry juice boosts memory
- When cats are happy or pleased, they squeeze their eyes shut
- The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell
- Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world. About 100,000 of those can be felt and about 100 of them cause damage.
- The tongue is the only body muscle that is attached from one end only. (Please don't send me corrections to add the penis; the penis is not a muscle).
- We, as humans, forget 90% of our dreams
- During thinking, we use on about 35% of our brains
- The percentage of people dreaming in black and white started decreasing after the spread of color TV
- Approximately two-thirds of people tip their head to the right when they kiss
- Just days before the World Cup of 1966 in England, the trophy was stolen and then later retrieved by a dog
- Some Chinese believe that swinging the arms cures headaches
- Coffee drinkers have more sex than non-coffee drinkers. They also enjoy it more.
- The city of Portland in Oregon was named after a coin toss in 1844. Heads for Portland and tails for Boston.
- A queen bee lays 1500 eggs a day
- No president of the United States was an only child for his parents
- Laughter is a proven way to lose weight
- Pumice is the only rock that floats in water
- The African cicada fly spends 17 years sleeping, then wakes up for two weeks, mates and then die.
- The vibrator was originally used as a medicinal treatment for female "hysteria" during the 19th century
- Reno, Nevada has the highest rate of alcoholism in the U.S., Provo, Utah, the lowest.
- The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. Hemp doesn't contain THC and won't make you high.
- In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles
- 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
- 250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S.
50 IMPORTANT CELEBRITY FACTS
50. George Clooney sometimes sleeps in the walk-in closet of his LA mansion because, he says, "all the bedrooms are too light".
49. In 1985, Teri Hatcher played a dancing mermaid on The Love Boat. "That was the first job I ever had" she says. "I left college before finishing my math degree to go do that".
48. While attending Princeton, Prison Break star Wentworth Miller traveled the world performing with the school's acapella group, The Princeton Tigertones
47. Matthew Perry is missing part of his middle finger on his right hand due to a door-shutting accident.
46. Diane Lane's mom, Colleen Farrington, was playboy's Miss October 1957 (the ex playmate was also pregnant in one of her photo shoots)
45. Early in her career, Whitney Houston sang the jingle used in commercials for Bounce fabric sheets.
44. A childhood virus left Rob Lowe completely deaf in his right ear. "No stereo for me" he says "It's a mono world".
43. Even though she appears in ads for Tommy Hilfiger's True Star fragrances, Beyonce is reportedly allergic to perfume.
42. After Drew Barrymore posed for Playboy in 1995, Steven Spielberg sent a note that said "cover yourself up" along with a quilt and a copy of the magazine with all her pictures altered so that she appeared fully clothed.
41. Jake Gyllenhaal got his first driving lesson from family friend Paul Newman
40. At age 10, Justin Timberlake won 1991 pre-teen Mr. America pageant. The following year, he became the first male winner of America's Universal Charm pageant.
39. Before becoming an actress, Aussie Naomi Watts worked as an assistant fashion editor at a fashion magazine called Follow Me.
38. Colin Farrell says that Marilyn Monroe was the first woman he fell in love with. "I used to leave Smarties, the Irish equivalent of M&Ms, under my pillow with a little note saying, "I know you're dead but these are very tasty and you should come and have a few. i wont tell anyone"
37. Gwen Stefani admits that she's had only two boyfriends in her life: No Doubt band mate Tony Kanal and husband Gavin Rossdale.
36. As a 2nd grader Jamie Foxx was so talented at telling jokes, his teacher used him as a reward. If the class behaved, Jamie would entertain them.
35. Butt-Kicking Kill Bill siren Uma Thurman is a crafty one. "I knit" she admits, adding "I love glue gun projects"
34. Keira Knightley was Queen Amidala's decoy in Star Wars: Episode 1 though the film was promoted as if Natalie Portman played both roles.
33. Though Christina Aguilera is of Ecuadorian descent and recorded an album in Spanish, she doesn't speak the language. I gathered that when she said mai gousta kantaar
32. In 1993, Jessica Simpson tried out for the Mickey Mouse Club but panicked after watching Christina Aguilera audition. "I froze and forgot everything" she says. She lost out to both Christina and Britney Spears.
31. Eva Longoria starred in the 2004 flick Carlita's Secret, a crime drama in which she shared a same-sex smooch with actress Maria Bravo. "It was the most fun i've ever had kissing somebody".
30. In the early 70s, Richard Gere played Danny Zuko in a London production of Grease.
29. Tom Cruise admits that he still does the Risky Business underwear dance when hes at home alone. He calls it his "dance of freedom".
28. As a child, Jim Carrey wore tap shoes to bed just in case his parents needed cheering up in the middle of the night.
27. Christina Applegate attended the 1989 MTV Movie Awards with Brad Pitt, but dumped him at the event and left with someone else. "We were really good friends when I was about 16. We went to the awards and I ditched him! I left him there and I feel really bad about it...I really really do. I left with somebody else"
26. In a high school talent show, Matt Damon performed the talking heads' "Burning Down the House"
25. Mariah Carey was nicknamed "Mirage" in high school because she never showed up for class.
24. Angelina Jolie's uncle who looks just like John Voight, Chip Taylor, wrote the song "Wild Thing"
23. Catherine Zeta Jones' father owned a candy factory, but the star says she rarely indulged: "I had so many sweets and candy hanging around my house that I never even bothered with them".
22. Comic actor Jack Black is the son of rocket scientists. His mother worked on the Hubble telescope, and his father worked on "some stuff that i can't tell you about," Jack says.
21. Jennifer Love Hewitt sent Matt Damon an inflatable bed because she read he didn't feel like he has a bed of his own. She never heard back and now, he "looks at me a little weird".
20. At the age of 7, Reese Witherspoon appeared in a television commercial fora local Nashville Florist.
19. Paris Hilton has size 11 feet! "All those super cute shoes like Guccis and Monolos look like clown shoes on me"
18. Russell Crowe was once a pompadoured singer named Russ Le Roq. His first single was "I want to be like marlon brando"...even though he'd never seen a Brando movie when he wrote the song.
17. Madonna is related to both Gwen Stefani and Celine Dion. Gwen's great aunt's mother-in-law shares the same last name as Madonna Ciccone and an ancestor of Madonna's mother was married to a distant relative of Celine's dad.
16. Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey began his career as a juggling unicycle-riding clown.
15. Tara Reid attended high school in New Jersey with American Idol contestant Constantine Maroulis.
14. Julia Roberts' left eye tears up when she gets nervous.
13. Struggling actress Charlize Theron landed her first agent in a bank. He signed her after witnessing her throwing a fit at a bank teller who refused to cash her check.
12. When he was little, Ben Affleck asked his mom for a dog and she tested him by making him walk an imaginary pup for a week. In the end, he only lasted five days and didn't get the dog.
11. Brittany Murphy claims she started speaking at 4 and a half months. She also says she was a very "energetic child, really bubbly...extremely precocious"
10. Demi Moore, who has earned up to 20 million per movie, first found work as a bill collector
09. Heidi Klum is an avid painter and several of her works have appeared in US art magazines.
08. Daryl Hannah is co creator of the board game Liebrary
07. Both Olsen twins had to wear fake teeth during the later years of Full House because their smiles began to look different.
06. In 1985, a four year old Alicia Keys appeared on The Cosby Show as one of the guests at Rudy's slumber party.
05. Usher holds the Star Search record for the longest note by a child: 12.1 seconds
04. Claire Danes has a swing in her apartment. "My parents had a swing, a trapeze and a trampoline in their apartment, I was inspired by that"
03. American Beauty star Thora Birch's mom acted in 21 adult films including Deep Throat under the name Carol Connors before retiring in 1993.
02. Halle Berry used to date New Kid on the Block Danny Wood. They broke up because the band thought she was a groupie.
01. Brad Pitt belonged to the Key Club and the Forensics Club in High School, and before he became an actor he supported himself as a chauffeur, a furniture mover and a costumed mascot for the restaurant, El Pollo Loco.
Facts to make every Indian proud
A. Vinod Khosla
today's computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Aziz Premji,
who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6th
position now.
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world's No.1 web
based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator
of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard?
A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000,
responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). ,
Friday, March 25, 2011
Paper Facts
Americans throw away enough office and writing paper annually to build a wall 4 metres high
stretching from Los Angeles to New York City.
100 million trees are cut down every year to make the paper for “junk mail”. One-half of junk mail is
thrown away unopened and unread.
Recycling half the world’s paper would free 20 million acres of forestland.
Every Sunday 500,000 trees could be saved if everyone recycled their newspapers.
You would make only 700 paper bags out of a 15-year old tree
.
Every day business generates enough paper to circle the earth 20 times.
Recycling a 1 metre stack of newspaper saves a 10 metre pine tree.
The production of a ton of paper requires 17 trees.
Facts and Figures relating to the causes and consequences of the world's 5th-largest earthquake since 1900
Why was Japan's March 11 earthquake so big?
One answer is the large size of the fault rupture as well as the speed at which the Pacific Plate is continuously thrusting beneath Japan. People felt shaking in cities all over Honshu, Japan's main island.
Below are some more facts and figures relating to the causes and consequences of the world's fifth-largest earthquake since 1900.
Magnitude, according to USGS: 9.0
Speed at which the Pacific Plate is smashing into the Japanese island arc: 8.9 centimeters (3.5 inches) per year
Speed at which the San Andreas Fault in California is slipping: about 4 centimeters per year
Size of the rupture along the boundary between the Pacific and North American plates: 290 kilometers (180 miles) long, 80 kilometers across
Approximate length of Honshu island: 1,300 kilometers
Years since an earthquake of this magnitude has hit the plate boundary of Japan: 1,200
Duration of strong shaking reported from Japan: three to five minutes
Greatest distance from epicenter that visitors to the USGS Web site reported feeling the quake: About 2,000 kilometers
Distance that the island of Honshu appears to have moved after the quake: 2.4 meters
Change in length of a day caused by the earthquake's redistribution of Earth's mass: 1.8 microseconds shorter
Normal seasonal variation in a day's length: 1,000 microseconds
Depth of the quake: 24.4 kilometers
Range of depths at which earthquakes occur in Earth's crust: 0 – 700 kilometers
Top speed of a tsunami over the open ocean: About 800 kilometers per hour
Normal cruising speed of a jetliner: 800 kilometers per hour
Length of warning time Sendai residents had before tsunami hit: eight to 10 minutes
Number of confirmed foreshocks to the main shock: four
Magnitudes of the confirmed foreshocks: 6.0, 6.1, 6.1 and 7.2
Number of confirmed aftershocks: 401
Worldwide average annual number of earthquakes over magnitude 6.0: 150
World Wide Waste.it's just Astounding
World Wide Waste…it’s just Astounding
An average person throws away 74kg of organic
waste each year, which is the same as 1,077 banana
skins.
Every day 80 million food and drinks cans end up in
landfill - that's one and a half cans per person. In a
year, each person could fill a bath with the contents
of these cans!
We use over six billion glass bottles and jars each
year. It would take you over three and a half
thousand years to sing 'Six Billion Green Bottles'!
In the 1950s the world made less than 5 million
tonnes of plastic products. This has increased to
about 80 million tonnes today. We produce and use
20 times more plastic today than we did 50 years
ago!
Recycling waste materials supports about six times
as many waste-related jobs as there would be if the
same materials were treated as trash.
The oil equivalent of 35 Exxon Valdez tankers is
dumped into our nation’s rivers, lakes, and streams
every year! And used motor oil is far more deadly
than crude oil ...
The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle will
keep a light bulb burning for 4 hours.
Facts about our Earth
