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Education / 50 Cool And Wired Fun Facts by stal65(m): 4:19pm On Jun 13, 2015 |
Cool and Weird facts about our everyday lives that everyone should know. Check out this collection of 50 Cool and Weird Fun Facts. Do you have any other fun facts you would like to add? Post them in our comment section! Start your day learning something you didn't know yesterday. 1. You breathe on average about 5 million times a year. 2. Months that begin on a Sunday always have a Friday the 13th in them. 3. You are born with 300 bones, by the time you are an adult you will have 206. 4. The average lead pencil will write a line about 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. 5. One fourth of the bones in your body are in your feet. 6. The average person spends 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for the light to change from red to green. 7. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it. 8. The present population is expected to rise to 15 Billion by the year 2080. 9. The largest recorded snowflake was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick. 10. The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom. 11. Native Americans used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees after their children were born, hence the names Sitting Bull and Running Water. 12. The Matami Tribe of West Africa play their own version of football, instead of a normal football they use a human skull. 13. Coca-Cola would be green if the food colorant wasn't added. 14. During the 17th Century, the Sultan of Turkey ordered his hole harem of women to be drowned and replaced with a new one. 15. Coffins used for cremation are usually made with plastic handles. 16. "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 17. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. 18. Cockroaches can live several weeks with their heads cut off. 19. It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. We dare you, give it a try! 20. A Ten Gallon Hat will only hold 3/4 of a Gallon. 21. Of all the words in the English language, the word "SET" has the most definitions. 22. It is against the law to burp, or sneeze inside a church in Nebraska. 23. In 1386 a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. 24. Earth is the only planet not named after a god. 25. The world's oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old! 26. Scientists have tracked butterflies travelling over 3,000 miles. 27. The silkworm consumes 86,000 times its own weight in 56 days. 28. If removed from the stress of the modern world, the average human would sleep about 10 hours a day. 29. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers. 30. A colony of 500 bats can eat approximately 250,000 insects in an hour. 31. One in Five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans. 32. Travelling masseuses in ancient Japan were required by law to be blind. 33. The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in court. 34. James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running. 35. The average American spends about a year and a half of his or her life watching commercials on television. What are you doing?! Get out and spend that year and a half doing something productive! 36. Ancient Greeks practiced a form (ineffective) of birth control that consisted of having a woman hold her breath, making her squat, and sneezing. 37. The FDA permits up to 5 whole insects per 100 grams of apple butter. 38. There are no naturally occurring blue foods, even blueberries are purple! 39. The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present in all the important meetings of the University of London. 40. The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! 41. Just like fingerprints, everyone's tongue is different. 42. The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. 43. 400 Quarter Pounders can be made from a single cow. 44. Only 38% of Americans eat breakfast every day. 45. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 46. 11% of the World is left handed. 47. A "Jiffy" is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second. 48. A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight. 49. A broken clock is right two times a day. 50. A duck's quack doesn't echo anywhere, no one knows why. |
Education / A Must Read For All Nigerian Student by stal65(m): 9:44pm On Dec 08, 2014 |
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JUJU AND OGUN juju is an object that is possesed by an evil spirit, while ogun is a bunch of metal scrap majorly rusted cutlass, condem bikes (okada) and cars. I hope with this short note i hv stated out the difference between ogun nd juju for more stories contact the baba in that hurt at the back of that palm tree in front of that banga |
Education / Facts Abt Computers by stal65(m): 7:53am On Nov 27, 2014 |
12 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About Computers 12 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Computers. They book our hotels. They buy our books. They bring us the latest TV. They tell us where we are when we’re lost. In short, modern computers do everything. You might think you know a lot about them. However, here’s some facts we’re willing to bet you don’t know. 01 Over 6,000 new computer viruses are released every month. So, y’know: sleep tight. 02 The first computer mouse-waaaay back in 1964- was designed by a chap called Doug Engelbert, and constructed out of wood. Yes, wood. 03 The average human being blinks around 20 times in a minute. A computer user blinks only 7! 04 The very first electro-mechanical computer was called the Z2, and was developed back in 1939. The same year was broke out. Not that we’re paranoid. 05 It’s estimated that by the end of 2012, there will be a rather ridiculous 17 billion devices that connect to the internet. 06 The internet might be a veritable feast of information, but in actuality five in six online pages are focused with, er, adults in mind. 07 Over one million domain names per month are registered online. That’s a lot of internet, right there. 08 Facebook boasts over 800 million users. Were it a country, it would be the third largest in the world behind India and China. See? It’s not just your addiction. 09 The first hard drive in history was created by Seagate in 1979, and could take a grand total of 5mb-the equivalent of one song in mp3 format (and a shortfish one at that). 10 If you find wiring for a plug difficult, spare a thought for those responsible for the nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra, which contains a quite ridiculous 222 million transistors. 11 Organised crime syndicates are responsible for 20.70% of online viruses. Not quite the actions of Don Corleone, but still something to think about. 12 The original engineers who designed the IBM PB were nicknamed ‘The Dirty Dozen’. That explains fact 6, then. |
Education / What Are Some Interesting Facts About Computer Networking? by stal65(m): 7:01am On Nov 27, 2014 |
We haven't actually run out of IPv4 addresses, its just that when the internet was founded, we gave huge blocks to organizations that still hold the equivalent of millions of public addresses. CCAr certification is possibly one of the most prestigious in the world. It requires presenting 10+ years of experience on a resume, 3750 dollars to even be considered, 11,250 dollars to take the exam (not counting the plane flight), and a CCDE (Cisco Certified Design Expert, ony 60 own this certification). You are tested by a live board of Distinguished Engineers and other CCAr engineers. There are only 9 of these in the world. A switch and a hub isn't the same thing, don't let Best Buy tell you otherwise. Switch > hub. At peak capacity, Netflix uses 1/3 of all Internet traffic in North America. By accessing any website, a stream of information must bounce between anywhere from 3 to dozens of other routers on the internet, all run by ISPs and interconnected. A response is then sent back accross this same path to reach your computer again, and then transfer begins. This happens in a fraction of a second. For some reason, a lot of people who like networking shy away from programming, and vice versa. (There are exceptions of course!) Cisco runs an van called the NERV. It is deployed in sites where there has been a natural disaster and is used to obtain internet and communications in the area. It was deployed in Haiti and helped news crews and VIPs communicate and help restore some order. They have VoIP (Voice over IP) phones, fax machines, a 20mb satellite link, and enough equipment for any situation. The first message sent over the internet was "LOG". "LOGIN" was the original intended message but the entire system crashed. This was done at MIT. Vint Cerf, one of the "founding fathers" of the internet and one of the founders of TCP/IP, wrote a poem to lament the end of ARPANET, called "Requiem of the ARPANET": "It was the first, and being first, was best, but now we lay it down to ever rest. Now pause with me a moment, shed some tears. For auld lang syne , for love, for years and years of faithful service, duty done, I weep. Lay down thy packet , now, O friend, and sleep." -Vint Cerf To go on a little rant, not very many people realize how much work has gone into the internet. 40 years of protocols built ontop of each other, countless governments and organizations, billions of packets flying across a "series of tubes" and dozens of protocols, just so you can look at a picture of a cat. |
Education / Re: Important Notice To All Nairalanders, Must Read by stal65(m): 6:37pm On Nov 26, 2014 |
U can say dat again experience broda |
Education / Important Notice To All Nairalanders, Must Read by stal65(m): 6:30pm On Nov 26, 2014 |
No lady is cheap and dude's are not fools, the lady U've been chasing for over 12 months was in bed with a guy just three days after they met. The lady you had in your bed in less than a week, is being chased by another guy for over 18 months. If she sees a quality in you and falls for you, never stand anywhere and say she is CHEAP. And to the ladies: The guy who just bought you a iPhone never bought even a wristband for his ex. If you are lucky he's so much in love with you, don't think he's a fool. Don't take him for GRANTED, Don't see any GUY to be a FOOL or ''Mugu'' ,someone being good to you doesn't mean he is fool. |
Education / Re: 6 Tough But Underated Course To Study by stal65(m): 2:17am On Nov 26, 2014 |
Are u sure |
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