New Zealand is one of the few big cluster of islands in the world which did not break out of a bigger land mass or continent. It rose from the ocean. Now, because it was surrounded by water from all around there was no access for land animals to get there and get a piece of the action.
Only a few birds flew over to this new land full of life. These birds had a really good time and as they did not find any predators on the ground, they gradually forgot about flying. They forgot about getting scared of anything. They were not being hunted or killed.
Population grew faster and faster, so they fo
New Zealand is one of the few big cluster of islands in the world which did not break out of a bigger land mass or continent. It rose from the ocean. Now, because it was surrounded by water from all around there was no access for land animals to get there and get a piece of the action.
Only a few birds flew over to this new land full of life. These birds had a really good time and as they did not find any predators on the ground, they gradually forgot about flying. They forgot about getting scared of anything. They were not being hunted or killed.
Population grew faster and faster, so they forgot about reproduction too. Let me put it this way - they forgot about sex!
Their ways to find each other and mate are extremely difficult and almost impossible.
There's this bird called kakapo which will stand still if you approach it. Pick it up and wear it as a hat. It just doesn't give a shit.
Explains the Kiwis.
Douglas Adams gave a brilliant lecture on this topic. Youtube link :
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Where do I start?
I’m a huge financial nerd, and have spent an embarrassing amount of time talking to people about their money habits.
Here are the biggest mistakes people are making and how to fix them:
Not having a separate high interest savings account
Having a separate account allows you to see the results of all your hard work and keep your money separate so you're less tempted to spend it.
Plus with rates above 5.00%, the interest you can earn compared to most banks really adds up.
Here is a list of the top savings accounts available today. Deposit $5 before moving on because this is one of th
Where do I start?
I’m a huge financial nerd, and have spent an embarrassing amount of time talking to people about their money habits.
Here are the biggest mistakes people are making and how to fix them:
Not having a separate high interest savings account
Having a separate account allows you to see the results of all your hard work and keep your money separate so you're less tempted to spend it.
Plus with rates above 5.00%, the interest you can earn compared to most banks really adds up.
Here is a list of the top savings accounts available today. Deposit $5 before moving on because this is one of the biggest mistakes and easiest ones to fix.
Overpaying on car insurance
You’ve heard it a million times before, but the average American family still overspends by $417/year on car insurance.
If you’ve been with the same insurer for years, chances are you are one of them.
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Consistently being in debt
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Missing out on free money to invest
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1. Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
2. There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne (pictured at home in 2010) sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
3. Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
4. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.
5. You can't see as many colors as a chicken. You'll also never see all the beautiful colors of a rainbow (They actua
1. Google's founders were willing to sell to Excite for under $1 million in 1999—but Excite turned them down.
2. There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne (pictured at home in 2010) sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.
3. Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.
4. Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.
5. You can't see as many colors as a chicken. You'll also never see all the beautiful colors of a rainbow (They actually have over a million colors!)
6. The weight of the ants on earth is just about the weight of humans on earth (At least used to be, around 100–200 years ago)
7. On an average, someone in the United States is killed every 45 minutes by a drunk driver.
8. Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts and worms like fried bacon (Yuck!!!)
9. A person will create enough saliva to fill out two swimming pools during his/her lifetime.
10. People say 'bless you' when you sneeze because this used to be one of the first symptoms of the bubonic plague, so Pope Gregory I suggested saying 'bless you' when someone sneezes in the hopes that the prayer would protect them from an otherwise certain death.
11. A portion of water that you drink has already been drunk by someone, maybe several times over! (Ew!)
12. Marie Currie's notebooks are still radioactive, researchers who want to view them must sign a disclaimer.
13. Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid approximately $21,429 for every one of the 700 words he said in 'Terminator 2:The Judgement Day'.
14. For Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers was paid $1 million, 55 percent of the film’s budget.
15. The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green.
16. There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.
17. A single cloud can weight more than 1 million pounds.
18. Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.
19. A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.
20. Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
21. Blueberries will not ripen until they are picked.
22. About 150 people per year are killed by coconuts.
23. About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
24. Chewing gum burns about 11 calories per hour.
25. Prisoners in Canadian war camps during WWII were treated so well, that a lot of them didn’t’ want to leave when the war was over.
26. In New York it is illegal to sell a haunted house without telling the buyer.
27. Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
28. A waterfall in Hawaii goes up sometimes instead of down.
29. A Church in the Czech Republic has a chandelier made entirely of human bones.
30. The male ostrich can roar just like a lion.
31. Mountain lions can whistle.
32. In the last 3,000 years, there have only been 240 years of peace in the world.
33. In ancient Egypt, servants were covered in honey so as to attract flies away from pharaoh.
34. The average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes. (No offence meant.)
35. In 86AD the Colosseum was filled with water to stage a full naval battle.
36. Slovakia and Slovenia are mistaken to be each other so often that they meet once a month to exchange wrongly addressed mails.
37. The stripes on each tiger are unique, like human fingerprints.
38. Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.
39. Bananas are slightly radioactive.
40. An experiment in 1998 found that a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock.
41. There's high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest.
42. On Mars, sunsets are blue.
43. The Japanese who survived the Titanic crash was called a coward in his country for not dying with the other passengers.
44. Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
45. Mice and Human DNA are 97.5% similar.
46. There's a hotel in Bolivia made almost entirely of salt, complete with salt beds and chairs.
47. In Belarus, it is illegal to applaud in public.
48. NASA scientists have discovered stars that are cool enough to touch.
49. A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
50. A chinese man sued his wife for being
too ugly...
and the Court agreed awarding him US $115,000.
51. Only female mosquitoes drink blood.
Males are vegetarians.
52. In the Bible, God sent two bears to murder 42 children because they had mocked a man for being bald.
53. Only about 15% of the Sahara Desert is covered in sand.
54. "Tinku" is a festival in Bolivia where people beat each other for 2 or 3 days straight.
55. Egyptian Pyramid workers were paid with beer: 1 gallon (4L) per day.
56. A man named Robert Lane named
his two sons "Winner" and "Loser"....
Winner grew up to be a criminal,
and Loser became a detective.
57. It's illegal to lie down and fall asleep with your shoes on in North Dakota.
58. Samoa is 24 hours ahead of American Samoa, even though they are just 70 km (43 mi) apart.
59. Iran arrested 14 squirrels for spying in 2007.
60. Two actors have died playing Judas in live Biblical productions by accidentally hanging themselves for real during his death scene.
61. When Louis Pasteur was working on the rabies vaccine, if he or his assistants got infected, they were to be shot in the head.
62. In 2009, Nigerian Police arrested a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
63. Charles Darwin ate every animal he discovered.
64. Alexander the Great,Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
65. In 2011, a monkey was arrested in Pakistan for crossing the border with India.
66. Dreams get weirder as the night wears only.
67. In Ancient Rome, the punishment for killing one's father was the death penalty, consisting of being sewn up in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a cock.
68. A cat has been the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for 15 years.
69. Holding a vibrator against a person's throat relaxes the vocal muscles, there by improving their voice quality.
70. Gold is edible.
71. During the 18th century, you could pay your admission ticket to the zoo in London by bringing a cat or a dog to feed the lions.
72. In older versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl and the wolf eat grandma together.
73. The Mimic Octopus can impersonate up to15 marine species, including Sea Snakes, Stingrays, Lionfishes, and Jellyfishes.
74. Animals avoid power lines because they see frightening ultraviolet flashes that are invisible to humans.
75. Before trees were common, the Earth was covered with giant mushrooms.
76. Red Wine Kills Cancer Cells.
77. Goats have rectangular pupils.
78. Baby Chicks are smarter than Baby Humans .
79. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you might rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
80. There's a Spa in Jakarta using pythons to massage clients.
81. Before the mid-19th century,dentures were commonly made with teeth pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers.
82.
Lake Hillier in Australia is a bright pink color and scientists aren't sure why.
83. Albert Einstein's eyes remain in a safe box in NYC.
84. A porcupine can fight off a pride of lions.
85. Dynamite is made with peanuts.
86. Every piece of plastic ever made still exists.
87. Women can fly airplanes in Saudi Arabia, but can't drive cars.
88. The common basilisk is also known as the"Jesus Christ Lizard" for its ability to run on the surface of water.
89. In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.
90. Being annoying was against the law in Grand Rapids, Michigan, until 2014.
91. 37% of Americans think global warming is a hoax.
92. Scientists want to introduce global warming on Mars to make life habitable for colonization.
93. Despite Global Warming, we're still technically in an Ice Age.
94. At least 1 in 25 people sentenced to the death penalty in the U.S. are innocent.
95. Iran sentences its citizens to the death penalty if they decide to change their religion from Islam.
96. Possessing Bibles and watching South Korean movies may be punished with death in North Korea.
97. If you have a pizza with radius Z and thickness A, its volume is =
Pi*Z*Z*A
98. Ancient Babylonians did math in base 60 instead of base 10. That's why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 360 degrees in a circle.
99. 123 - 45 - 67 + 89 = 100.
123 + 4 - 5 + 67 - 89 = 100.
123 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 + 8 - 9 = 100.
1 + 23 - 4 + 5 + 6 + 78 - 9 = 100.
100. There are 177,147 ways to tie a tie, according to mathematicians.
101. Sir Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica contained a simple calculation error that went unnoticed for 300 years.
102. Mathematician Paul Erdos could calculate in his head, given a person's age, how many seconds they had lived, when he was just 4 years old.
103. Newton invented/discovered calculus in about the same amount of time the average student learns it.
104. If you announce your goals to others, you are less likely to make them happen because you lose motivation, studies confirmed.
105. Phobias may be memories passed down through generations in DNA, according to a new research.
106. Einstein's great breakthroughs came from visual experiments performed in his head rather than the lab.
107. Einstein was famous
for having a bad memory. He could not remember names, dates and phone numbers.
108. Scientists finally concluded that
the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is produced by hens.
Note: Technically speaking, the egg came first. Eggs were around since much before chickens, this is directed specifically at chicken eggs.
109. A 10-Year-Old Accidentally Created in 2012 a New Molecule in Science Class: Tetranitratoxycarbon.
110. Four Japanese scientists measured the amount of friction between a shoe, a banana skin and the floor: it's 0.07.
111. Earthquakes turn water into gold.
Edit: A little clarification on this since it’s a bit misleading by itself: When an earthquake strikes, it moves along a rupture in the ground — a fracture called a fault. During an earthquake, the fault jog suddenly opens wider. It's like pulling the lid off a pressure cooker: The water inside the void instantly vaporizes, flashing to steam and forcing silica, which forms the mineral quartz, and gold out of the fluids and onto nearby surfaces.
Unfortunately it’s not as miraculous as the one sentence seems to claim, but interesting nevertheless.
112. A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.
113. Rain contains vitamin B12.
114. During photosynthesis, plants emit light, called fluorescence, that humans can't see.
115. If you could fold a piece of paper 50 times, it's thickness would exceed the distance from here to the Sun.
116. The Big Bang Theory was actually first theorized by a Catholic priest.
117. Ice melting in Antarctica has caused a small shift in gravity in the region.
118. Bees can be trained to detect bombs.
119. The earth's deepest known point equals to 24.5 Empire State Buildings end to end.
120. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
121. 100,000,000,000 solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of your body every second.
122. If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.
123. Due to the new discovery of many brain parasites, scientist now think a Zombie Apocalypse is actually possible.
124. The "Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge" is offered to anyone who can demonstrate a supernatural ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. In 40 years, no one ever won.
125. In 2013, two physicist managed to "tie" water into knots.
126. The WW1 ended at 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
127. After World War I, there were so few men in Germany that only 1 in 3 women would find a husband.
128. During First World War, a British soldier spared the life of a wounded German: Adolf Hitler.
129. During WW1, the King of England, the Tsar of Russia, and the Emperor of Germany were all first cousins.
130. WW1 allied soldiers would fire thousands of rounds at random over the German trenches to boil the water in their machine guns to make tea.
131. In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
132. During the Cold War, the U.S. seriously considered dropping an atomic bomb on the Moon to show off its military superiority.
133. The atomic bomb explosion at Hiroshima was generated by matter weighing no more than a paper clip.
134. Russia has over 8400 nuclear weapons, more than any other country.
135. Laughing 100 times is equivalent to 15 minutes of exercise on a stationary bicycle.
136. On average, people who complain live longer. Releasing the tension increases immunity and boosts their health.
137. Bill Gates' Foundation spends more on global health each year than the World Health Organization of the United Nations.
Sources - : 20 Mind Blowing Facts You Probably Didn't Know
82 mind-blowing movies facts you probably didn't know
100 Cool and Weird Fun Facts that you should know!
28 Weird Facts That Almost Nobody Knows… #18 Blows EVERYONE Away.
83 Facts about Unbelievable Things ←FACTSlides→
Hope this helps.
Some of the facts may be slightly misleading (pretty sure not more than 2 or 3), I tried to correct every wrong one but in case I missed a few please let me know in the comments. I’ll verify it and update if the need arises.
1. When it was decided to revive the Olympic Games after 1,500 years, the first modern-era Olympics took place on April 6, 1896, in Athens.
2. When the stagecoaches were standard in the 1880s, the driver would typically assign his passenger seat to an armed partner whose duty it was to keep thieves away. Hence the expression “riding shotgun.”
3. During Walter Summerford’s life, he was struck by lightning and survived three times. After his death, his gravestone was also struck by lightning.
4. The FBI has struggled to hire hackers because applicants must not have used cannabis in the last three y
1. When it was decided to revive the Olympic Games after 1,500 years, the first modern-era Olympics took place on April 6, 1896, in Athens.
2. When the stagecoaches were standard in the 1880s, the driver would typically assign his passenger seat to an armed partner whose duty it was to keep thieves away. Hence the expression “riding shotgun.”
3. During Walter Summerford’s life, he was struck by lightning and survived three times. After his death, his gravestone was also struck by lightning.
4. The FBI has struggled to hire hackers because applicants must not have used cannabis in the last three years.
5. Most laughter isn’t because things are funny.
6. In starship trooper, the actors agreed to do the coed shower scene only if the director got naked with them and he did.
7. In the Jurassic Park movies before the CGI is added, this is what the velociraptors look like.
8. In Sweden, blood donors receive a text message when their blood is used to save lives.
9. When in a group, pandas are collectively called an “embarrassment.”
10. Hurricane Andrew, 1992: the Miami Zoo put 30 flamingos in a bathroom to save them from the storm.
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- If an alien located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, he would see only Dinosaurs!
- Mice and humans share 98% DNA. It takes changing only 2% of mice DNA to make a human being (if it were that easy). That's why most experiments are conducted on mice.
- People who have the Anton-Babinski syndrome are blind but they don't know that they're blind. Pretty cool eh? If you ask them "How many fingers am I holding up?", they will make up a number and tell you. If you say that they're wrong, they'll make up excuses like "I didn't wear my glasse
- If an alien located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, he would see only Dinosaurs!
- Mice and humans share 98% DNA. It takes changing only 2% of mice DNA to make a human being (if it were that easy). That's why most experiments are conducted on mice.
- People who have the Anton-Babinski syndrome are blind but they don't know that they're blind. Pretty cool eh? If you ask them "How many fingers am I holding up?", they will make up a number and tell you. If you say that they're wrong, they'll make up excuses like "I didn't wear my glasses today" or "I have a headache, I can't concentrate today".
Citations: Mice, men share 99 percent of genes
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Here’s the thing: I wish I had known these money secrets sooner. They’ve helped so many people save hundreds, secure their family’s future, and grow their bank accounts—myself included.
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- Potato chips cause more weight gain then anyother food. There is gain of average 1.69 pounds per 4 years due to them.
- Longest living insect on earth is termite. It live as long as 100 years.
- Dogs can smell cancer. Dogs are able to pick up on a specific scent that cancer produces in a person which is undetectable by humans.
- According to researches, boyfriends do more housework as compared to the husbands.
- Longest word you can type only from left hand is “sweaterdresses”.
- New born babies can't shed tears. The can express feeling by crying but can't shed tears.
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- Potato chips cause more weight gain then anyother food. There is gain of average 1.69 pounds per 4 years due to them.
- Longest living insect on earth is termite. It live as long as 100 years.
- Dogs can smell cancer. Dogs are able to pick up on a specific scent that cancer produces in a person which is undetectable by humans.
- According to researches, boyfriends do more housework as compared to the husbands.
- Longest word you can type only from left hand is “sweaterdresses”.
- New born babies can't shed tears. The can express feeling by crying but can't shed tears.
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If you are thinking of pulling an all-nighter for the next day's exam or a project deadline, You generally drink coffee and make yourself awake.
Here's a better idea. Sleep for 15 to 30 minutes immediately after drinking a large cup of coffee. When you wake up, You'll feel active as if you had a 10 hour sleep.
This is called "Caffeine Nap"
If you want to know more info about this,
5 Ways to Trick Your Body Into Being More Awesome
Suppression of sleepiness in drivers: combi... [Psychophysiology. 1997]
EDIT : preferably 15 to 30 minutes..
That so called "facts" in threads like this one, are mostly wrong.
E.g. the highest upvoted answer here:
Let's check them together, shall we?
It is impossible to lick your elbow with your tongue.
1. Wrong: There are hundreds of people claiming otherwise:
Some more here: elbow lick at DuckDuckGo
Never say never. Or in this case: Impossible is impossible ...
Update: Another myth to bust; some people mentioned in the comments, this is only possible if you are double-Jointed.
or on Wiki: Hypermobility (joints)
People say, "Bless You" when you sneeze, because when you sneeze your heart stops for a
That so called "facts" in threads like this one, are mostly wrong.
E.g. the highest upvoted answer here:
Let's check them together, shall we?
It is impossible to lick your elbow with your tongue.
1. Wrong: There are hundreds of people claiming otherwise:
Some more here: elbow lick at DuckDuckGo
Never say never. Or in this case: Impossible is impossible ...
Update: Another myth to bust; some people mentioned in the comments, this is only possible if you are double-Jointed.
or on Wiki: Hypermobility (joints)
People say, "Bless You" when you sneeze, because when you sneeze your heart stops for a millisecond.
2. Wrong: There is a legend claiming, your soul could be thrown from the body when sneezed, but I never heard the story with the heart: God bless you
More than 50% of world's population has never made or received a phone call.
3. Wrong: I have already heard that over 10 years ago - with the same percentage (...) What percentage of people in the world have never made or received a telephone call?
Like everyone's fingerprints, tongue prints are also different.
4. True, but each individual person has a set of traits that are different from any other. Among these individual traits are fingerprints, tongue prints, patterns in the iris of the eye, voice patterns and others: Is it true that people have “tongue prints”?
Hot water is heavier than cold.
5. Nope: Let me explain: Liquid water is most dense at 4°C. so your statement "Hot water is heavier than cold water." is only true a) if you mean a certain volume of water b) you mean pure water and c) even than, it is only true from 0°C to 4°C.
If you went into space you would explode before suffocating, because there's no air pressure.
6. This is so wrong in so many ways, I don't even want to explain it; Wikipedia at your service: Space exposure
Or here an easy understanding video: Page on sciencechannel.com
Human birth control pills work on gorillas too.
7. FINALLY something that seems to be true: What Happens to Gorillas on the Pill
On an average 12 newborns are given to wrong parents daily.
8. Square wrong: Where and of how many? On the planet Mars delivery ward? Gosh always this Martians...
What is known as "French Kiss" in English speaking world is known as "English Kiss" in France.
9. Wrong: There are these words for "French Kiss" in French: Baiser amoureux (wiki), French Kiss, baiser profond, patin m. [fam.], pelle f. [fam.], baiser lingual [anat.] and baiser langue en bouche vieilli.
PS: Kampyūṭara (Hindi), Konpyūta (Jap), komp'yuter (Tur) - gosh even the Russians use this stem: keompyuteo (Rus) ... ordinateur (Fra) ... and you think these guys use an English word, especially for something like a kiss..? (France–United Kingdom relations)
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
10. Wrong: Oh really? Gosh always these Americans, now they invaded the whole planet? Seems so: Rome (disambiguation)
PS: There is also the Italian word for Rome: Roma, which is located on some more continents. Anyway, even both names together, can not to be found on all Continents.
You may also like to read this answer from me: highly upvoted answers on Quora that are actually wrong
Update:
No 5 seems to be a tricky one. There are actually a lot of, let's call them "populist pseudo science" webpages, which claim otherwise; don't fall for them. Please watch this easy explained Ted video and share your wisdom wherever you find such "fact" lists (I just call them wract = wrong "fact").
Btw. do you know, why it is essential for the living on earth, that water is most dense at 4°C? (if not, watch the video;)
This is the webpage OP mentioned later in a comment as source:
Hot water is actually a little bit heavier than cold water because as Einstein told us E=mc2. So if E, the energy in the water, goes up because it’s hotter then mass, m, must also go up to keep the equation balanced. [sic]
by Science Questions.
No, 1 Kg of hot water is not heavier than 1 Kg of cold water...
Let me correct this sentence:
Warm water [hot water could be understood as water vapor] is [in some rare cases; as mentioned in my first post] actually a little bit denser than cold water. But in most cases it is the opposite: Cold water is actually denser than warm water.
(I wouldn't write it like this in normal use, this is just to show you the misunderstandings)
Best you could say may be something like: "A rule of thumb is, that the more the water's temperature approaches 4°C, the denser the water becomes."
Still not enough? Want some maths and physics? (and probably some headache): http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-amazing-and-interesting-facts-you-know/answer/Alexander-Freiherr/comment/11182031
Now this is the MOST interesting fact that I know of.
There was a book written about the sinking of the Titanic, 14 years before it actually sank.
The novel written by Morgan Robertson in 1898, The Wreck of the Titan, features the ocean liner Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg.
The Titan and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship RMS Titanic.
Some bizarre co-incidences between the fact and the fiction:
1. Titanic was described in the newspapers as "designed to be unsinkable", whereas the Titan was deemed "practically unsinka
Now this is the MOST interesting fact that I know of.
There was a book written about the sinking of the Titanic, 14 years before it actually sank.
The novel written by Morgan Robertson in 1898, The Wreck of the Titan, features the ocean liner Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg.
The Titan and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship RMS Titanic.
Some bizarre co-incidences between the fact and the fiction:
1. Titanic was described in the newspapers as "designed to be unsinkable", whereas the Titan was deemed "practically unsinkable" in the book.
2. There were 16 lifeboats on the Titanic, less than half the number required for her passenger and crew capacity of 3000. Whereas on the Titan there were 24 lifeboats, less than half needed for her 3000 capacity.
3. The Titanic struck an iceberg on the starboard side on the night of April 14, 1912, in the North Atlantic, 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) away from Newfoundland. The Titan also struck an iceberg on the starboard side on an April night in the North Atlantic, 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) from Newfoundland (Terranova).
4. The unsinkable Titanic sank, and more than half of her 2200 passengers and crew died. The indestructible Titan also sank, more than half of her 2500 passengers drowning.
An amazing fact that is highly disturbing as well.
Here are some interesting fun facts about random things,
1. It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people,
20 years for the phone to reach 50 million people,
13 years for the television,
3.6 years for Facebook
& Only 88 days for Google plus to reach 50 million people.
(https://plus.google.com/+PaulAllen/posts/EwpnUpTkJ5W)
2. For the past 15 years, a Bulgarian man named Dobry Dobrev walked upto 25 kilometres every single day, to beg money for the orphanages who were unable to pay their bills.
He turned 101 years old in the month of July, this year.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org
Here are some interesting fun facts about random things,
1. It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million people,
20 years for the phone to reach 50 million people,
13 years for the television,
3.6 years for Facebook
& Only 88 days for Google plus to reach 50 million people.
(https://plus.google.com/+PaulAllen/posts/EwpnUpTkJ5W)
2. For the past 15 years, a Bulgarian man named Dobry Dobrev walked upto 25 kilometres every single day, to beg money for the orphanages who were unable to pay their bills.
He turned 101 years old in the month of July, this year.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobri_Dobrev)
3. A moment is actually a medieval period of time equal to 90 seconds, there are 40 moments in an hour.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_(time))
4. James Cameron was actually homeless when he wrote the terminator and sold the rights to it only for 1 Dollar on the condition that he could direct the movie, The Terminator.
(http://www.blastr.com/2013-3-25/little-known-sci-fi-fact-homeless-james-cameron-sold-terminator-script-1)
5. Australia lost a Prime minister, Harold Holt who died on 17th of December 1967 as he went for a swim and never came back.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt)
6. High atmospheric pressure effects the bubbles of your coffee.
If the bubbles are closer to the centre, you can expect it to rain or have other stormy weather.
(http://m.instructables.com/id/Predict-weather-with-a-cup-of-coffee/)
7. Elephants remember and mourn their loved ones like humans, sometimes years after their death.
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2270977/Elephants-really-grieve-like-They-shed-tears-try-bury-dead--leading-wildlife-film-maker-reveals-animals-like-us.html)
8. In 2013, a bank worker in Germany fell asleep on his keyboard's number 2 button causing him to transfer
222 million, 222 thousand, 222 Euros
On a transfer that should have been worth only 62 Euros.
However, his co worker was the one who was fired for not spotting the ERROR.
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2339560/German-bank-clerk-accidentally-puts-190million-pensioner-s-account-falling-asleep-keyboard.html)
9. Users upload an average of
350 million photos to Facebook everyday and in total have uploaded more than 250 billion photos to this date.
(http://m.businessinsider.in/Facebook-Users-Are-Uploading-350-Million-New-Photos-Each-Day/articleshow/22709734.cms)
10. There are approximately
10 Quintilian insects on our planet.
That's 10 with with 18 zeroes behind it or roughly, 200 million insects per human.
(http://www.si.edu/encyclopedia_si/nmnh/buginfo/bugnos.htm)
11. During the late 1800s a baboon named Jack was employed by the rail road in Capetown, South Africa as a signal man, he never once made a mistake and worked for the railroad until his death.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(chacma_baboon))
12. Scientists have begun arguing that we may actually have more than five basic senses including Magnetoreception which is the ability to detect magnetic fields &
Chronoception which is the sense of time passing.
(http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/humans-have-a-lot-more-than-five-senses/)
13. Marvels The Avengers movie, caused Shawarma( Arab meat) sales to sky rocket nation wide in America in 2012 purely because of an extra scene in which Thor, Captain America, Bruce Banner and the rest of the heroic clan are quietly enjoying Shawarma after casually saving the world.
(http://www.esquire.com/food-drink/food/a13972/avengers-boosts-shawarma-sales-8707403/)
14. In 1888, a pigeon keeper and a bee keeper challenged each other's creatures to a 5.6 kilometres organised race in Germany, the bee won by 25 seconds.
(http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28546844)
15. Jonathan the tortoise, is a giant tortoise that lives on the island of Saint Helena ,in south pacific ocean,
Is believed to be born in 1832 and is still alive to this date.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise))
16. America has 19 aircraft carriers compared to the rest of the world that only has 12 combined.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier)
17. If you multiply
111,111,111
X
111,111,111
It gives the magical mathematical result of
12,345,678, 987,654,321
(
)
18. In 2013, Volkswagen succeeded in building the car that gets 235 miles per Gallon ( 3.78 liter) called the XL 1
Almost the entire car is made of carbon fibre that only weighs 81 kilogram.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car)
19. Most of the time, the ice cream that you see in TV commercials and other ads is actually mashed potatoes, this is because the regular ice cream wouldn't be able to stand up to the heat of the on set lights while filming.
(http://www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/8_tricks_of_the_food_photography_trade_7542.aspx)
20. The Salar De Uyuni, in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat at 10 thousand 5 hundred and 82 square kilometres and turns into the world's Largest Mirror when it rains.
It's so beautiful that it's been called the border between Heaven and Earth.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salar_de_Uyuni)
21. In Japan, Nestle has introduced over 200 different flavours of KitKat since the year 2000.
Which includes Soy sauce, Green tea and Banana flavour.
(http://www.foodrepublic.com/2015/07/20/there-are-more-than-200-different-flavors-of-kit-kats-in-japan-heres-why/)
Fascinating isn't it?
Source: Various links mentioned below each answer.
www.Wikipedia.com
Self search & Google images
Update:
Changelog #1:
- Modified the content on the compatibility of this trick and included a tip shared by an user in the comment box.
- Added another small little trick about Windows hidden themes.
In Windows, there is a hidden function which allows all system management tools (usually spread through control panel, computer management, administration tools etc) to be conveniently accessed from a single place. It is called as GodMode.
GodMode is not a plugin, or a software. To activate a GodMode shortcut, you just need to create a new folder and rename it to a specific file name with a code.
Create
Update:
Changelog #1:
- Modified the content on the compatibility of this trick and included a tip shared by an user in the comment box.
- Added another small little trick about Windows hidden themes.
In Windows, there is a hidden function which allows all system management tools (usually spread through control panel, computer management, administration tools etc) to be conveniently accessed from a single place. It is called as GodMode.
GodMode is not a plugin, or a software. To activate a GodMode shortcut, you just need to create a new folder and rename it to a specific file name with a code.
Create a new folder anywhere on your Desktop and rename the folder from 'New Folder' to this exact code:
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
You'll notice while pasting the exact code as above into the folder name, the part 'GodMode.' won't get placed over there and only the code with the curly braces will, cause that part becomes the folder name and the code implements all the functions into the folder. You can also rename the folder to anything you want!
Just hit enter and your GodMode shortcut will get created. The folder icon will resemble like that of Control Panel.
You can now access all the functions and tools from one place which are originally intended to be available only to Microsoft developers.
The complete list of all the functions of GodMode are listed below in the screenshot. Preview in full screen for better readability. This code works for all Windows OS including XP, Win 7 as well as Win 8.
One of the user left a comment saying that, it didn't work on his XP SP3. It remained as a folder and said Windows cannot open this file. So I would suggest, after creating the folder, right click on it's properties and uncheck the read only button. Then try following up the procedure, it might work. Give it a try!
Harshit Jain provided a tip in the comments:
For all those who use Windows Vista 64-bit: Don't try this at home. It caused my Windows Explorer to repeatedly crash, rendering my account unusable. If you did this, here is a fix: Log in to another account on safe mode, and delete the registry entry with the same code you entered for God Mode.
Access Windows 7 hidden themes.
In Windows 7 there are a few official themes which gets unlocked as per your geographical location. It offers you location specific Aero themes based on the language and location you pick during installation. By default when you begin the installation of Windows 7, you choose English as your default language and sometimes you even select the default time and currency format as English (United States). Well, that's not a matter to worry about as you can change it later after the installation.
So after selecting US, you are presented with location specific themes from the United States with desktop backgrounds such as some scenery, a lighthouse view, orchid garden etc.
So in order to access order hidden regional themes, open Windows Explorer, click the Organize button and select folder and search options from the drop down menu. This should open up the Folder Options window. Click the View tab. Under the section labeled Advanced settings, look for the value Show hidden files, folders, and drivers and select it. Next, look for the value Hide protected operating and uncheck it. If prompted with a popup window click Yes, then click the OK button.
After that simply open up your run command by pressing Win+R or go to My Computer and in the address bar, type in the following path:
C:\Windows\Globalization\MCT
MCT is a hidden sub-folder in the Globalization folder. If someone doesn't knows the path and browse the Globalization folder, he/she won't find any such sub-folder named MCT until and unless their hidden files and folders are shown. That's why you directly go to that location using the address bar or run command.
When you open the MCT folder, you will find additional themes for Canada, Australia, South Africa, and Great Britain. Go into the folder that you want to activate its theme. You can also go in and grab just the wallpapers.
Open the theme folder inside the selected region folder. Double click on the XX.theme file to apply the theme to the Windows 7 desktop system. Once a theme is ran and activated, the theme will be remembered and saved into personalization options, so that user can change or select the theme again directly from personalization settings screen.
After you have checked out the new themes, go ahead and change the Globalization settings back for Windows. Launch Windows Explorer. Click the Organize tab and select Folder and search options from the drop down menu. Click the view tab and re-select Don't show hidden files, folders, and themes. Also re-select hide protected operating system files. Click the OK button.
That’s all there is to it. You should now have several new country themes available in your Windows 7 themes library. Right-click on your desktop and select personalize. You should now see your new themes listed. Enjoy!
To be continued.
Just look at the legendary Chuck Norris’s advice since he is now a whopping 81 years old and yet has MORE energy than me. He found a key to healthy aging… and it was by doing the opposite of what most of people are told. Norris says he started learning about this revolutionary new method when he noticed most of the supplements he was taking did little or nothing to support his health. After extensive research, he discovered he could create dramatic changes to his health simply focusing on 3 things that sabotage our body as we age.
“This is the key to healthy aging,” says Norris. “I’m living pro
Just look at the legendary Chuck Norris’s advice since he is now a whopping 81 years old and yet has MORE energy than me. He found a key to healthy aging… and it was by doing the opposite of what most of people are told. Norris says he started learning about this revolutionary new method when he noticed most of the supplements he was taking did little or nothing to support his health. After extensive research, he discovered he could create dramatic changes to his health simply focusing on 3 things that sabotage our body as we age.
“This is the key to healthy aging,” says Norris. “I’m living proof.”
Now, Chuck Norris has put the entire method into a 15-minute video that explains the 3 “Internal Enemies” that can wreck our health as we age, and the simple ways to help combat them, using foods and herbs you may even have at home.
I’ve included the Chuck Norris video here so you can give it a shot.
> Oxygen masks on most commercial airplanes are not connected to an oxygen source.
… Or compressed air.
The panel above each seat contains an insulated mix of chemicals that, when burned, releases oxygen.
They may include a mixture of barium peroxide (a fine powder used in fireworks), sodium chlorate (a weedkiller), and potassium chlorate (reacts violently with sugar).
Therefore it is vital to tug t
> Oxygen masks on most commercial airplanes are not connected to an oxygen source.
… Or compressed air.
The panel above each seat contains an insulated mix of chemicals that, when burned, releases oxygen.
They may include a mixture of barium peroxide (a fine powder used in fireworks), sodium chlorate (a weedkiller), and potassium chlorate (reacts violently with sugar).
Therefore it is vital to tug the mask thoroughly (as always instructed in those exciting demonstrations), so the chemical process can start, as this mixture/burning is initiated mechanically by the tug. Once it starts, it cannot be stopped until everything has reacted and has burned out. The supply of oxygen lasts usually around 15 minutes tops.
This is a clever solution, as e...
- The world’s shortest escalator is found in Kawasaki, Japan. It has only 5 steps.
- There is a mountain in Australia named Mt Disappointment because the view from the top disappointed British explorers.
- Before erasers were invented, people used bread to remove pencil marks.
- In Italy, last names in the north usually ends in “i” and those from the south ends in “o”.
- Some people are allergic to cold weather. The condition is called as “cold urticaria”.
- The game rugby is named after the Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire in England, where the game was invented.
- The word iceberg comes from the Dutch word “
- The world’s shortest escalator is found in Kawasaki, Japan. It has only 5 steps.
- There is a mountain in Australia named Mt Disappointment because the view from the top disappointed British explorers.
- Before erasers were invented, people used bread to remove pencil marks.
- In Italy, last names in the north usually ends in “i” and those from the south ends in “o”.
- Some people are allergic to cold weather. The condition is called as “cold urticaria”.
- The game rugby is named after the Rugby School in Rugby, Warwickshire in England, where the game was invented.
- The word iceberg comes from the Dutch word “ijsberg”. It means “ice mountain”.
- A group of foxes is called as an “earth”.
- Penguins can drink salt water. It helps them survive in places with limited fresh water.
- The city of Melbourne was earlier called as “Batmania”.
- India and Bangladesh share their National Animal(Bengal tiger - Wikipedia).
- Foxes live on every continent except Antarctica.
- France uses 12 different time zones, more than any other country, because of its overseas territories.
- Ketchup originated in China as a spiced pickeled fish sauce known as ke-chiap.
- Before 1912, car tires were either white or gray. That’s why the Michelin Man is white.
- Lamps in Tibetan monasteries are fuelled by Yak Butter.
- The word for the ‘Infinity’ symbol is “Lemniscate”.
- India has won every Kabaddi World Cup tournament for both men and women.
- There are only 2 ATMs in Antarctica.
Edit 1: Thanks Quora User for bringing the fact out that - Bangladesh’s National Anthem is a Bengali song— “Amar Sonar Bangla”.
Source of facts - Google Allo .
Was just testing the app this evening and wrote down this answer what ever facts it pinged. Will keep adding more Facts and Trivia from Google Allo.
1. Spongeboy.
2. Become Batman.
3. Awesome
4. Four Phobia.
5. Lucky woman.
6. Inception.
7. Dudeism
8. Puma vs Adidas
9. Madonna
10. Deepest hole.
Edit:-
What if Apple made sneakers ? :D
Source:- Apple made these incredibly rare sneakers in the '90s, and no one knows who owns them today
Image source :- Facebook.
For more fact :-
http://www.whattheffacts.com/
1. Spongeboy.
2. Become Batman.
3. Awesome
4. Four Phobia.
5. Lucky woman.
6. Inception.
7. Dudeism
8. Puma vs Adidas
9. Madonna
10. Deepest hole.
Edit:-
What if Apple made sneakers ? :D
Source:- Apple made these incredibly rare sneakers in the '90s, and no one knows who owns them today
Image source :- Facebook.
For more fact :-
http://www.whattheffacts.com/
The tiny island-nation of Tuvalu, located somewhere between Australia and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, receives a yearly payment of almost $4 million for doing nothing at all.
The reason? This is the money that the Tuvalu government receives from royalties from the country's domain name, .tv!
The tiny island-nation of Tuvalu, located somewhere between Australia and Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean, receives a yearly payment of almost $4 million for doing nothing at all.
The reason? This is the money that the Tuvalu government receives from royalties from the country's domain name, .tv!
World's largest island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island - Mudfooted.com
"The world’s largest island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island! Can you picture that? Vulcan point is a small volcanic island within the 2km large Crater Lake of the Taal Volcano on Volcano Island in Taal lake on Luzon Island, Phillippines, in the pacific ocean."
"The small Vulcan Point is only some 40m across and is populated by shrubs and small trees."
World's largest island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island - Mudfooted.com
World's largest island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island - Mudfooted.com
"The world’s largest island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island! Can you picture that? Vulcan point is a small volcanic island within the 2km large Crater Lake of the Taal Volcano on Volcano Island in Taal lake on Luzon Island, Phillippines, in the pacific ocean."
"The small Vulcan Point is only some 40m across and is populated by shrubs and small trees."
World's largest island within a lake on an island within a lake on an island - Mudfooted.com
The flag of Paraguay is the only national flag in the world that's different in the front and in the back:
Front:
Back
The flag of Paraguay is the only national flag in the world that's different in the front and in the back:
Front:
Back
The bushes in mario were just recolored clouds.
The bushes in mario were just recolored clouds.
-Credit: Vsauce
-Credit: Vsauce
In a deck of cards, The King of Hearts does not have a mustache.
It is said that he King of Hearts did originally have a mustache but it was lost by poor copying of the original design. (Source : Who do the kings, queens and jacks on the courts represent? )
In a deck of cards, The King of Hearts does not have a mustache.
It is said that he King of Hearts did originally have a mustache but it was lost by poor copying of the original design. (Source : Who do the kings, queens and jacks on the courts represent? )
Save your Powerpoint presentations with a .pps extension instead of .ppt. They'll open directly in presentation mode and Powerpoint will close when the slideshow is over. It saves you a few clicks and it adds a flair of professionalism. I'm amazed at how many college professors aren't aware of this trick.
Most of us don't know how to undo a mail sent in Gmail .
For this you have to enable google labs for undo and you can do this easily by following these steps
1. Click the gear icon in the top right corner of your Gmail window and select Settings from the dropdown menu.
2. Select Labs from the row of tabs.
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom where you see Undo Send and click Enable.
4. Hit Save Changes at the bottom.
5. Now when you send an email, the yellow dialogue that displays "Your message has been sent" will also give you the option to Undo.
6. Just by clicking on that button you can und
Most of us don't know how to undo a mail sent in Gmail .
For this you have to enable google labs for undo and you can do this easily by following these steps
1. Click the gear icon in the top right corner of your Gmail window and select Settings from the dropdown menu.
2. Select Labs from the row of tabs.
3. Scroll all the way to the bottom where you see Undo Send and click Enable.
4. Hit Save Changes at the bottom.
5. Now when you send an email, the yellow dialogue that displays "Your message has been sent" will also give you the option to Undo.
6. Just by clicking on that button you can undo your message.
When Steven Spielberg dropped out of college in 1968, he was only a few credits short of a diploma. So in 2002, after winning 3 Oscars, 5 honorary doctorates, and 2 lifetime achievement awards, he returned to California State University, long beach, to complete a degree in film and electronic arts. He placed out of FEA 309, the advanced film-making class.
He did this to show gratitude to his parents for giving him the opportunity for an education and a career.
To demonstrate his proficiency, he submitted Schindler’s List.
Source: Steven Spielberg To Graduate from California State University
Old churches and cathedrals used to have these elaborate knockers on the front door. In medieval England they were called sanctuary knockers. A person being chased by the law could touch the knocker and, as soon as his or her hand would touch the metal, sanctuary would be granted. You could no longer be touch by whatever power wanted you…
The church would then grant a safe space for whoever touched the knocker. The sanctuary knocker provided a fascinating but rarely used loophole for inmates sentenced to death, too — if you were to be hanged or have your head parted from your neck in a place ne
Old churches and cathedrals used to have these elaborate knockers on the front door. In medieval England they were called sanctuary knockers. A person being chased by the law could touch the knocker and, as soon as his or her hand would touch the metal, sanctuary would be granted. You could no longer be touch by whatever power wanted you…
The church would then grant a safe space for whoever touched the knocker. The sanctuary knocker provided a fascinating but rarely used loophole for inmates sentenced to death, too — if you were to be hanged or have your head parted from your neck in a place nearby a church, your guards could, in theory, walk you through a church courtyard on your way to your execution. Deliberately marching you past church doors in order to give you the ability to then touch the knocker and be saved… priests could spirit you away to safety someplace far out of the authorities’ reach…
Church sanctuary laws existed in England until the year 1623, when they were officially outlawed. Until then one could, in theory, get away with any offense under the sun by merely touching an ornamental piece of metal on a church door.
1. The real name of Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III.
2. In Finland, a minimum of 21 mbps internet speed is fundamental human right. Indians will understand why this is so "interesting" and why it is "off the top of my head." ;-)
3. The real name of Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi, Schindler's list, dozen other awesome movies) is Bhanji Pandit Krishna. He is of Gujarati (Indian) origin.
4. Freddie Mercury - the greatest rock star who ever lived was of Gujarati descent too and his real name is Farrokh Bulsara.
From Space, you can still see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs
From Space, you can still see the division between East and West Germany due to different light bulbs
The water from a freshly opened coconut can be safely injected into human veins in place of sterilized water-for-injection.
References:
[1] Campbell-Falck D, Thomas T, Falck TM, Tutuo N, Clem K (2000). "The intravenous use of coconut water". Am J Emerg Med 18 (1): 108–11. doi:10.1016/S0735-6757(00)90062-7. PMID 10674546.
[2] Coconut water (wikipedia)
On Saturn's moon Titan, the gravity is low enough and the atmosphere thick enough, that by attaching small wings to your arms, you could fly like a bird.
Edison and his laboratory staff developed the first electric pen during the summer and fall of 1875, this pen was converted it into the first electric tattoo needle by Samuel O'Reilly in 1890.
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The simplest way of downloading a YouTube video.
In the YouTube url, add the letter 'SS' after www.
EDIT: Changing the Image as per Quora policy. :-/
The simplest way of downloading a YouTube video.
In the YouTube url, add the letter 'SS' after www.
EDIT: Changing the Image as per Quora policy. :-/
The meaning of SMS prefixes like AM, DZ, LM etc.(for INDIA):
Notification/Ad/Service provider SMSs have a prefix like AM, DZ, LM etc. in the 'Sender' info e.g. AM-ICICIB, DZ-HDFCBK, LM-FLIPKT.
This format is specified by TRAI and has to be used by the Bulk SMS providers used by these organizations.
The last 6 letters are for the organization to choose(like ICICIB for ICICI Bank).
First Letter - Code for the Telecom Service Provider used by the Bulk SMS provider
Second Letter - Code for the Location of Origin of the message
So AM means that the telecom service provider is Airtel and it originated
The meaning of SMS prefixes like AM, DZ, LM etc.(for INDIA):
Notification/Ad/Service provider SMSs have a prefix like AM, DZ, LM etc. in the 'Sender' info e.g. AM-ICICIB, DZ-HDFCBK, LM-FLIPKT.
This format is specified by TRAI and has to be used by the Bulk SMS providers used by these organizations.
The last 6 letters are for the organization to choose(like ICICIB for ICICI Bank).
First Letter - Code for the Telecom Service Provider used by the Bulk SMS provider
Second Letter - Code for the Location of Origin of the message
So AM means that the telecom service provider is Airtel and it originated from Mumbai.
- The crime rate is so low in the Netherlands that they have closed 23 prisons since 2004 because they don’t have enough criminals to fill them
- Back in the 90’s Denzel Washington paid the fees for a young aspiring actor who couldn’t afford to go to Oxford’s summer theatre. That young actor was Chadwick Boseman (R.I.P). Chadwick publicly thanked Denzel at the AFI life achievement awards in 2019
- In 1963 a Turkish man was renovating his home. After knocking down a wall in his basement he found a tunnel. He followed the tunnel and discovered an ancient underground city called Derinkuyu which once had
- The crime rate is so low in the Netherlands that they have closed 23 prisons since 2004 because they don’t have enough criminals to fill them
- Back in the 90’s Denzel Washington paid the fees for a young aspiring actor who couldn’t afford to go to Oxford’s summer theatre. That young actor was Chadwick Boseman (R.I.P). Chadwick publicly thanked Denzel at the AFI life achievement awards in 2019
- In 1963 a Turkish man was renovating his home. After knocking down a wall in his basement he found a tunnel. He followed the tunnel and discovered an ancient underground city called Derinkuyu which once had a population of 20000 people
- In 2009 an autistic artist named Stephen Wiltshire was able to draw the New York City skyline from memory with a pen after taking a helicopter ride for just 20 minutes
- Princess Diana was known for ignoring royal protocols. She would often ride the tube. At theme parks she would refuse preferential treatment and make William and Harry wait in line like everybody else
- The blue Nelson lake in New Zealand has the clearest body of water known to man with visibility in the lake of up to 260 feet
- The record for the biggest car theft of all time was 1000 Volvo cars. The cars were ordered and delivered then the invoice was ignored and to this day has still not been paid. The cars were ordered by and delivered to North Korea
- In 1963 the Bronx zoo opened an exhibition titled “the most dangerous animal in the world,” it was a mirror
- 2 muggers in New York City once tried to mug former heavyweight champion of the world Jack Dempsey (who was in his 60’s/70’s at the time). It ended as you might expect with both muggers unconscious. The dates and circumstances leading to the event are a bit uncertain although Dempsey did reference the incident in his book
- My personal favourite: In 1996 an avid birdwatcher in Devon, England spent a whole year hooting at owls and then recording their responses unaware that it was one of his neighbours pretending to be an owl and hooting back
- Blue Nelson lake (New Zealand)
Burj Khalifa is so tall that, from it, you can actually watch the same sun set or rise twice in a day.
If you watch the sun set from the base of the building and then take a super fast elevator to the top of the building, that same sun has not set yet. There is a time gap of 2-3 minutes. The same is applicable vice versa with sunrise.
Source : The world's tallest building is so tall… you can grab a lift and watch the sunset twice
Russia is bigger than Pluto.
Pluto's surface area is about 16,650,000 sq. km. and Russia is 17,075,400 sq. km.
Here is some most interesting facts which you never seen before…..!!!
Thankyou !!!
Here is some most interesting facts which you never seen before…..!!!
Thankyou !!!
INR Coins!
Not that interesting though but…
I am quite sure you encounter INR coins everyday but have you ever noticed something strange on it? (see image)
These marks might seem strange at first glance but it’s there for a purpose.
It tells us where the coin has been minted.
Actually there are four places in India where coins are minted.
1. Mumbai
2. Alipore (Kolkata)
3. Saifabad, Cherlapally (Hyderaba
INR Coins!
Not that interesting though but…
I am quite sure you encounter INR coins everyday but have you ever noticed something strange on it? (see image)
These marks might seem strange at first glance but it’s there for a purpose.
It tells us where the coin has been minted.
Actually there are four places in India where coins are minted.
1. Mumbai
2. Alipore (Kolkata)
3. Saifabad, Cherlapally (Hyderabad)
4. Noida (UP)
If there’s a diamond sign on the coin, it was minted in Mumbai.
If there’s no m...
The guy on the Anonymous silhouette in Quora is actually Charlie Cheever, one of the founders of Quora.
The guy on the Anonymous silhouette in Quora is actually Charlie Cheever, one of the founders of Quora.
Every wondered why tires are always black ?
i mean we can have blue ,red,green but why specially black ? What make black so special.
Technically ,black is not a colour but still why black ?
No they are not for embellishment instead they serve a very important purpose.
Let me explain
The rubber from which tires are made of white colour and then a substance called ' carbon black' is added as a stabilizin
Every wondered why tires are always black ?
i mean we can have blue ,red,green but why specially black ? What make black so special.
Technically ,black is not a colour but still why black ?
No they are not for embellishment instead they serve a very important purpose.
Let me explain
The rubber from which tires are made of white colour and then a substance called ' carbon black' is added as a stabilizing chemical compound which makes the tire black.
The addition of carbon black serves the following purpose :-
* increases the reliability and durability of tyres.
* Makes the tire strong.
* protects the tire from the damaging effects of UV...
Following are some Future Astronomical Events.
These are the date/years of many rare Astronomical events.
- July 28, 2061
Halley’s comet will be seen in the sky for the first time in this century.
2. June 9, 2123
One of the largest Lunar eclipses. It will last for about 1 hour & 6 minutes.
3. March 23, 2178
Pluto will complete one full orbit around the sun since it was discovered in 1930.
4. March 16, 2880
Asteroid(29075) 1950 DA will hit earth with the highest probability.
5. July 5, 6757
Simultaneous Solar Eclipse and transit of the planet Mercury across the sun.
6. February 14, 7541
Saturn will hide behin
Following are some Future Astronomical Events.
These are the date/years of many rare Astronomical events.
- July 28, 2061
Halley’s comet will be seen in the sky for the first time in this century.
2. June 9, 2123
One of the largest Lunar eclipses. It will last for about 1 hour & 6 minutes.
3. March 23, 2178
Pluto will complete one full orbit around the sun since it was discovered in 1930.
4. March 16, 2880
Asteroid(29075) 1950 DA will hit earth with the highest probability.
5. July 5, 6757
Simultaneous Solar Eclipse and transit of the planet Mercury across the sun.
6. February 14, 7541
Saturn will hide behind Jupiter. This won’t happen again in a million years!
7. 13,000 years from now
Earth’s axial tilt will get reversed.
Hence, Summer would occur during the months of winter and Winter will happen in months of summer!!
8. 27,000 years from now
Earth’s elliptical orbit around the Sun will become almost circular.
9. 36,000 years from now
A red dwarf star will pass very closely (3 light years away) from our Solar System.
10. 50,000 years from now
i)Beginning of new ice age
ii)A day will now be 86,401 seconds long instead of 86,400 seconds
11. 1,000,000 years from now
Due to the relative motion of Sun and other stars in the galaxy, all the known constellations will be distorted and unrecognizable.
12. 50 Million years from now
Mars’ moon Phobos will collide with the planet and will be torn apart by Mars’ gravity thus giving Saturn-like rings to the red planet.
13. 240 million years from now
We will complete one trip around the Black Hole at the center of our galaxy from our present position.
14. 250 million years from now
All continents on Earth will merge to form a supercontinent.
15. 400 million years from now
Earth will replenish it’s used up fossil fuels.
16. 3–4.5 Billion years from now
Temperatures will be so high that even rocks on Earth would melt: similar to the planet Venus!!
17. 3.75 billion years from now
Our galaxy will merge with the massive Andromeda Galaxy.
18. 7.59 Billion years from now
Earth will be swallowed by the supergiant Sun.
Thank you for reading.
Source--Future Astronomical Events
- It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.
- Flowers can grow faster by listening to music.
- Not a single engineer, out of the 30, made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.
- There's a volcano in Indonesia that spews blue flames.
- Musicians have the same life expectancy as Zimbabweans: the lowest on earth.
- Goldfish can't close their eyes as they have no eyelids.
- In 2013, Belgium issued a limited edition of chocolate flavored stamps.
- The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
- It snowed in the Sahara Desert in 1979.
- Flowers can grow faster by listening to music.
- Not a single engineer, out of the 30, made it off the Titanic: they stayed and kept the power on so others could escape.
- There's a volcano in Indonesia that spews blue flames.
- Musicians have the same life expectancy as Zimbabweans: the lowest on earth.
- Goldfish can't close their eyes as they have no eyelids.
- In 2013, Belgium issued a limited edition of chocolate flavored stamps.
- The weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up, according to data analyzed from Facebook.
The strange case of a giant of a man killed by something as small as a blister.
The tallest man in recorded history, Robert Wadlow born in 1918, stood at 8 feet 11 inches when he died aged only 22.
He was born into a normal sized family and was of normal size himself. Then he started to grow, and to grow. Aged 8 he towered over his father. His family spent a fortune on clothes for him, especially his custom-made shoes. His height also meant he was very heavy, though not noticeably fat. This put great pressure on his feet which caused discomfort and pain. When he was 18 his doctor noticed somethi
The strange case of a giant of a man killed by something as small as a blister.
The tallest man in recorded history, Robert Wadlow born in 1918, stood at 8 feet 11 inches when he died aged only 22.
He was born into a normal sized family and was of normal size himself. Then he started to grow, and to grow. Aged 8 he towered over his father. His family spent a fortune on clothes for him, especially his custom-made shoes. His height also meant he was very heavy, though not noticeably fat. This put great pressure on his feet which caused discomfort and pain. When he was 18 his doctor noticed something that would kill him in the end. He had no sensation in his feet and could feel absolutely nothing in that area.
Robert with his family.
His size also meant that he was forced to wear a brace on his legs. This led to some chafing on his foot where a blister grew. Due to a lack of feeling he didn’t notice it and the blister soon become worse leading to him developing a fever. His health quickly deteriorated and doctors did all they could at the hotel were he was staying as there were no beds in the local hospital that could accommodate him.
One of the last things he said to his gathered family was, ‘’The doctor says I won’t get home for the celebrations,’’ a reference to the wedding anniversary of his grandparents. He then slipped into unconsciousness and died the next morning.
Robert with his father.
- Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who patented more than 3,300 inventions in his 73-year-old life, got his creativity from sinking himself underwater for hours at a time. Point? “To starve the brain of oxygen. Zero-point-five seconds before death, I visualize an invention.”
- Women terrified Cavendish. He warned his maids to keep out of his sight and communicated with his housekeeper only by notes left on his kitchen table. Those who protested were fired.
- Inventor of vaccines and pasteurization, Louis Pasteur was the head of the science program at a French school during the mid 1800's. He once told students
- Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who patented more than 3,300 inventions in his 73-year-old life, got his creativity from sinking himself underwater for hours at a time. Point? “To starve the brain of oxygen. Zero-point-five seconds before death, I visualize an invention.”
- Women terrified Cavendish. He warned his maids to keep out of his sight and communicated with his housekeeper only by notes left on his kitchen table. Those who protested were fired.
- Inventor of vaccines and pasteurization, Louis Pasteur was the head of the science program at a French school during the mid 1800's. He once told students that anyone caught smoking would be expelled. Seventy-three of the school's 80 students resigned.
- The inventor of the bread clip, Floyd Paxton, thought of the idea when he was on an airplane and needed to reseal a bag of snacks. So he created one on a whim, out of a piece of plastic. Needless to say, this was before planes had Wi-Fi.
- Benjamin Franklin had many hobbies including taking popular tunes and rewriting their lyrics to turn them into drinking songs.
- A man named Paul Brown invented the upside-down squeeze bottle in 1991. He sold his product to everyone from shampoo companies to ketchup companies to NASA, and then four years later he sold his company for $13 million.
- Alfred Fielding and Marc Shuvon were trying to develop a 3D plastic wall paper when they accidentally invented something else—bubble wrap.
- Paul Winchell invented the first mechanical, artificial heart. He was also the original voice of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh and Gargamel from the Smurfs.
Sources:
65 Bizarre Facts About Famous Scientists.
28 Interesting Facts About Inventors
Did you know that the upside-down ketchup bottle earned its inventor 13
Screen savers were actually meant to save your screen.
During the times of early CRT monitors, if the same image was continuously displayed on the screen for a long time it would suffer a phosphor burn-in, which is permanent discolouration of certain areas causing image degradation and ghost images.
Screen savers were designed to mitigate this effect by making sure that the screen is either blanked out or filled with continuously changing images or patterns so this burn-in would not occur.