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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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