Nobleval: When you die your hair still
grows for a couple of months.

This has been proven to be incorrect.

1. Ants never sleep!
2. When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
3. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother; because they were both deaf.
4. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.
5. “I Am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
6. Babies are born without knee caps – actually, they’re made of cartilage and the bone hardens, between the ages of 2-6 years.
7. Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
8. Butterflies taste with their feet.
9. A “jiffy”, is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
10. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
11. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
12. Minus 40° Celsius, is exactly the same as minus 40° Fahrenheit.
13. No word in the English language, rhymes with month - orange - silver -or- purple.
14. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination”and “bump".
15. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
16. Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
17. The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
18. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”
uses every letter in the English language.
19. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
20. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
21 The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
22. Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand.
23. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
24. You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath.
25. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
26. The dot over the letter “i” is called a 'Tittle'.

Important Facts about Earth
Total Surface Area— 510,064,472 sq km
Total Land Area— 148,940,000 sq km (29.2% of Planet Earth's surface)
Total Water Area— 361,132,000 sq km (70.8% of Planet Earth's surface)
Total Population— 7.04 billion
Total Weight— 5.9722 × 1024 Kg
Total Volume— 1.08321×1012 km3
Total Age— 4.54 billion years
Surface Gravity— 32.041 ft/s2
Distance from Moon— 384,403 kmWorld Map
Distance from Sun— 150 million km
Equatorial Radius— 6,378.1 km
Mean Radius— 6,371.0 km
Polar Radius— 6,356.8 km
Orbiting Speed— 29.78 km/s
Orbiting Time— 365.256363004 days
Surface Temperature— -88/5(min/max)°C
Orbit Size around Sun— 92,956,050 miles (Semi Major Axis)
Period of Rotation— 23.934 hours
Speed of Rotation— 1670 km/hr
Distance from nearest Planet— 38 million km from Venus
Total Continent— 7 (Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia,
Antarctica)
Total Ocean— 5 ( Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic )
UN Recognized Countries— 193
Total Seas— 137
Primary Tectonic Plates— 8 (African, Antarctic, Australian, Eurasian, Indian, North American, Pacific, South American)
Largest Continent— Asia, 43,820,000 sq km (29.5% of total World landmass)
Smallest Continent— Australia, 9,008,500 sq km
Largest Country— Russia, 17,098,242 sq km
Smallest Country— Vatican City - 0.44 sq km
Largest Ocean— The Pacific Ocean - 155,557,000 sq km
Smallest Ocean— Arctic, 14,056,000 sq km
Highest Mountain— Mount Everest, 29,029 ft - Nepal
Longest River— The Nile - 6,650 km
Largest Lake— The Caspian Sea - 371,000 sq km
Average Life Expectancy— 67.2 years

A pangram is a sentence containing every letter of the alphabet.It is also known as a holoalphabetic sentence.Pangrams have been used to display typefaces, test equipment, and develop skills in handwriting, calligraphy, and keyboarding.Examples are:

1.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

2.Forsaking monastic tradition, twelve jovial friars gave up their vocation for a questionable existence on the flying trapeze.

3.While making deep excavations we found some quaint bronze jewelry.

4.The job requires extra pluck and zeal from every young wage earner.

5.A mad boxer shot a quick, gloved jab to the jaw of his dizzy opponent.

Nobleval: 1. India never invaded any
country in her last 1000 years
of history.

2. India invented the Number
system. Zero was invented by
Aryabhatta.

3. The world’s first University
was established in Takshila in
700BC. More than 10,500
students from all over the
world studied more than 60
subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th
century BC was one of the
greatest achievements of
ancient India in the field of
education.

4. According to the Forbes
magazine, Sanskrit is the most
suitable language for computer
software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest
school of medicine known to
humans.

6. Although western media
portray modern images of
India as poverty-stricke n and underdeveloped through
political corruption, India was
once the richest empire on
earth.

7. The art of navigation was
born in the river Sindh 5000
years ago. The very word
"Navigation" is derived from
the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first
calculated by Budhayana, and
he explained the concept of
what is now known as the
Pythagorean Theorem. British
scholars have last year (1999) officially published that
Budhayan’s works dates to
the 6 th Century which is long
before the European
mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and
calculus came from India.
Quadratic equations were by
Sridharacharya in the 11 th
Century; the largest numbers
the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas
Indians used numbers as big as
10 53.

10. According to the
Gemmological Institute of
America, up until 1896, India
was the only source of
diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved
what has been a century-old
suspicion amongst academics
that the pioneer of wireless
communication was Professor
Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and
dam for irrigation was built in
Saurashtra.

13. Chess was invented in
India .

14. Sushruta is the father of
surgery. 2600 years ago he and
health scientists of his time
conducted surgeries like
cesareans, cataract, fractures
and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known
in ancient India .

15. When many cultures in the
world were only nomadic
forest-dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established
Harappan culture in Sindhu
Valley (Indus Valley
Civilization).

16. The place value system, the
decimal system was developed
in India in 100 BC.

Quotes about India
“We owe a lot to the Indians,
who taught us how to count,
without which no worthwhile
scientific discovery could have
been made.” – Albert Einstein.
“India is the cradle of the
human race, the birthplace of
human speech, the mother of
history, the grandmother of
legend and the great
grandmother of tradition.” – Mark Twain.

“If there is one place on the
face of earth where all dreams
of living men have found a
home from the very earliest
days when man began the
dream of existence, it is India.” – French scholar Romain
Rolland
. “India conquered and
dominated China culturally for
20 centuries without ever
having to send a single soldier
across her border.” – Hu Shih (former Chinese
ambassador to USA)

encyclopedia.....kudos 2 u

Additional facts here:
1) Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car
2) The moon is 27% the size of the Earth
3) Toads only eat moving prey
4) Only female mosquitoes bite
5) The word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'
6) A strawberry is the only fruit which seeds grow on the outside
7) Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms
Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'
9) Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all all invented by women
10) An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity)
11) there are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person
12) You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV
13) Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it
14) The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'

Nobleval: Some quick one...since the thread is in science section lets give credit to the indians! They've done a lot in science..
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett
Packard (hp) ?
A. Rajiv Gupta

Q. Who is the creator of
Pentium chip (needs no
introduction as 90% of the
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 Azim 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 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,
Mckinsey & Stanchart? A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta,
and Rana Talwar.

Q. Indians are the
wealthiest among all ethnic
groups in America, even faring
better than the whites and the
natives.

There are 3.22 million Indians in
the USA (1.5% of population). YET, 38% of doctors in USA are
Indians.

12% scientists in USA are
Indians.

36% of NASA scientists are
Indians.

34% of Microsoft employees
are Indians.

28% of IBM employees are
Indians.

17% of INTEL scientists are
Indians.

13% of XEROX employees are!
Indians.


Btw that's a lot of brain drain.

Nice post there, but i had always thought Egypt was the cradle of civilization and not india

Facts researchers I hail thee

smoothsk:



Nice post there, but i had always thought Egypt was the cradle of civilization and not india

No its false.

Indus Valley Civilization started around 3300 BC whereas the Egyptian Civilization started around 3100 BC.

so approximately same times.


The only difference between the 2 is that the Egyptian Civilization exists today only in the Museums, while the Indian Civilization is still continuing today in a progressed form, albeit with some interruptions during the islamic invasion periods.

The Chinese Civilization on the other hand has its roots in between 5000-3000 BC.

It also exists today in a continued form, especially among the Han Chinese majority.

Then there is the Mesopotamian Civilization which started around the same time as the Egyptian CIvilization (3100 BC approx).

It is extinct today, though some traces survive among the Madan people.

Nobleval: Now I've a reason to post more facts! Tanks Obinoscopy.

Thanks for promising to post more facts. We, ur fellow nlers, are most grateful.

This thread is simply for the matured minds. Keep it up guys. In a lifetime, an average person produces enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

Keep it rolling guys.

Interesting tread

2% of people on this planet have green eyes.

Nobleval: "I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

What about "Go!"

In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak, rather (listens) to other speakers of the house.
That's weird.

If you smoke igboh ur head go correct pass normal pesin #fact

Nobleval: In the average lifetime, a
person will walk the
equivalent of 5 times around
the equator.

I beg to differ, I would have walked 100X's around the equator

optimusprime2:
I beg to differ, I would have walked 100X's around the equator

i guess u need to upgrade from ur leggediz benz.

Wow!
Nice, interesting, informative, educative, enlightening!

Thanks for sharing OP, me likey!...

oluamid:

What about "Go!"

sentence not "word" Go is a word just like come.

DocAdray: Wow!
Nice, interesting, informative, educative, enlightening!

Thanks for sharing OP, me likey!...

you're welcome.

Guykhena...I see you

Nobleval: Guykhena...I see you

we finally made it.
The Facts Thread is back to its old glory. All thanks to your persistence...
Once again kudos and ride on

Nobleval: sentence not "word" Go is a word just like come.

Well, you could argue that "Go!" could be a sentence since it makes complete sense and contains a verb, abi? At least one of my English teachers in the distant past seem to think so.


Clue, don't think about the word "go" in isolation but "Go!" A command/imperative.

oluamid:


Well, you could argue that "Go!" could be a sentence since it makes complete sense and contains a verb, abi? At least one of my English teachers in the distant past seem to think so.

then his cert. need revocation.

oluamid...what about.eat,drink,cry,run,wake,....these are words for chrissake! What's a sentence?

50 Weird Facts
about Humans

1. People with higher number
of moles tend to live longer
than people with lesser
number of moles.

*Repeated*

3. When filming summer
scenes in winter, actors suck
on ice cubes just before the
camera rolls – it cools their
mouths so their breath
doesn’t condense in the cold air.

4. Thinking about your
muscles can make you
stronger.

5. Grapefruit scent will make
middle aged women appear
six years younger to men.
The perception is not
reciprocal and the grapefruit
scent on men has no effect on women’s perception.

6. The world’s youngest
parents were 8 and 9 and lived
in China in 1910.

7. The colder the room you
sleep in, the better the chances
are that you’ll have a bad
dream.

8. There are more people alive
today than have ever died.

9. Women’s hair is about half
the diameter of men’s hair

10. Women blink twice as
many times as men do.

11. The average person who
stops smoking requires one
hour less sleep a night.

12. Laughing lowers levels of
stress hormones and
strengthens the immune
system. Six-year-olds laugh an
average of 300 times a day.
Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

13. Intelligent people have
more zinc and copper in their
hair.

14. The human heart creates
enough pressure while
pumping to squirt blood 30
feet!

15. The brain operates on the
same amount of power as 10-
watt light bulb. The cartoon
image of a light bulb over
your head when a great
thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain
generates as much energy as a
small light bulb even when
you’re sleeping.

16. The brain is much more
active at night than during the
day.

17. The brain itself cannot feel
pain. While the brain might be
the pain center when you cut
your finger or burn yourself,
the brain itself does not have
pain receptors and cannot feel pain.

18. The fastest growing nail is
on the middle finger. And the
nail on the middle finger of
your dominant hand will
grow the fastest of all. Why is
not entirely known, but nail growth is related to the
length of the finger, with the
longest fingers growing nails
the fastest and shortest the
slowest

. 19. The lifespan of a human
hair is 3 to 7 years on average.

20. Human hair is virtually
indestructible. Aside from it’s
flammability, human hair
decays at such a slow rate
that it is practically non-
disintegrative. Hair cannot be destroyed by cold, change of
climate, water, or other
natural forces and it is
resistant to many kinds of
acids and corrosive chemicals.

Facts about Maryjay pls

21. The acid in your stomach is
strong enough to dissolve
razorblades. Hydrochloric acid,
the type found in your
stomach, is not only good at
dissolving the pizza you had for dinner but can also eat
through many types of metal.

22. The surface area of a
human lung is equal to a
tennis court.

23. Sneezes regularly exceed
100 mph.

24. Approximately 75% of
human waste is made of
water.

25. The average person expels
flatulence 14 times each day.
Even if you’d like to think
you’re too dignified to pass
gas, the reality is that almost
everyone will at least a few times a day

. 26. Earwax production is
necessary for good ear health.
While many people find
earwax to be disgusting, it’s
actually a very important part
of your ear’s defense system. It protects the delicate inner
ear from bacteria, fungus, dirt
and even insects. It also cleans
and lubricates the ear canal.

27. Babies are always born
with blue eyes. The melanin
in a newborn’s eyes often
needs time after birth to be
fully deposited or to be
darkened by exposure to ultraviolet light, later
revealing the baby’s true eye
color.

28. Every human spent about
half an hour as a single cell.

29. After eating too much,
your hearing is less sharp.

30. Women are born better
smellers than men and remain
better smellers over life.

31. Your nose can remember
50,000 different scents.

32. Nails do not
continue to grow after we
die. They do appear longer
when we die, however, as the
skin dehydrates and pulls
back from the nail beds

. 33. By the age of 60, most
people will have lost about
half their taste buds. Perhaps
you shouldn’t trust your
grandma’s cooking as much as
you do.

34. Your eyes are always the
same size from birth but your
nose and ears never stop
growing.

35. By 60 years of age, 60-
percent of men and 40-percent
of women will snore.

36. Monday is the day of the
week when the risk of heart
attack is greatest. A ten year
study in Scotland found that
20% more people die of heart
attacks on Mondays than any other day of the week.
Researchers theorize that it’s a
combination of too much fun
over the weekend with the
stress of going back to work
that causes the increase.

37. Provided there is water,
the average human could
survive a month to two
months without food
depending on their body fat
and other factors.

38. Over 90% of diseases are
caused or complicated by
stress.

39. A human head remains
conscious for about 15 to 20
seconds after it is been
decapitated. While it might be
gross to think about, the
blood in the head may be enough to keep someone alive
and conscious for a few
seconds after the head has
been separated from the
body, though reports as to
the accuracy of this are widely varying.

40. Babies are born with 300
bones, but by adulthood the
number is reduced to 206.