Useful Facts, Have a look...

[s18000rpm]

These are strange but goodies...


1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions.


2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. Indeed convenient!


3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.


4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.


5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.


6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.


7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.


8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.


9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.


10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.


11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.


13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.


14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.


15. Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.


16. Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.


17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing.


18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.


19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left foot.


20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.

21. Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.



Source: CSS [warez] Forum


a lot more [336] here UselessFacts (http://engr.smu.edu/~rada/UselessFacts.html)

[Cool G5]

Intresting fact's.
Knew some.

[prateek_san]

nice s18.........

[Harvik780]

One more fact added-
The stars u see in the sky in the night are not actually there its just the light coming after many light years.

[praka123]

18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every year.
afaik there is a ice bar in Dubai :)
http://img.breitbart.com/images/2007/8/10/D8QUCHA80/D8QUCHA80.jpg
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QUCHA80&show_article=1&image=large

[T159]

One more fact added-
The stars u see in the sky in the night are not actually there its just the light coming after many light years.
that means we are already witnessing wat happened million years ago:D

[Harvik780]

that means we are already witnessing wat happened million years ago:D
Right:D

[max_demon]

what happned to my thread of useless thread

[satyamy]

11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

I hav read somewhere its 6000 times

[Quiz_Master]

4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.


Even human females have that tendancy....:D :D :D

[Kalyan]

The stars u see in the sky in the night are not actually there its just the light coming after many light years.


that means we are already witnessing wat happened million years ago

Hi all.. I have seen a couple of times referring light years as time in this forum. Light years are not the measure of time. rather, it is DISTANCE. A light year is equal to 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (9.461 x1012 or 9.461 trillion kilometres). It is the DISTANCE a light ray can travel in an year. but, it is not the measure of years. The speed of light is approximately 300 000km/s (299 782 km/s). The time taken for the light to travel from sun to earth is 8 minutes. The sun is 0.000015 light years from Earth.

Light from the stars that you see at night can only been seen on Earth after they have travelled the distance that they are from Earth, so if star is perhaps 5 light years away, its light must journey for 5 years to reach Earth, to be seen. Using powerful telescopes such as the Hubble space telescope scientists have been able to see stars, galaxies and constellations that are millions of light years away, whereby the images and events that they are seeing now, took place millions of years ago. Also used in measuring stellar distances is the Parsec unit of measurement which spans about 3.26 light years.

So, it doesnt mean that it would take a million years. it depends on howmany light years the star you see is farther from earth. Do the math...

I quoted your statements above just for reference. If you really meant the same meaning as mine, just take it easy..

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_year

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01944/light.htm

[BBThumbHealer]

hey thnx..BMW Fan ! ;)

[Ihatemyself]

yeah harvik780 thats really a new fact...but i knew that a little while before u told (in 1st class) hee heee heeeee

[shantanu]

cool man...

[T159]

Hi all.. I have seen a couple of times referring light years as time in this forum. Light years are not the measure of time. rather, it is DISTANCE. A light year is equal to 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (9.461 x1012 or 9.461 trillion kilometres). It is the DISTANCE a light ray can travel in an year. but, it is not the measure of years. The speed of light is approximately 300 000km/s (299 782 km/s). The time taken for the light to travel from sun to earth is 8 minutes. The sun is 0.000015 light years from Earth.

Light from the stars that you see at night can only been seen on Earth after they have travelled the distance that they are from Earth, so if star is perhaps 5 light years away, its light must journey for 5 years to reach Earth, to be seen. Using powerful telescopes such as the Hubble space telescope scientists have been able to see stars, galaxies and constellations that are millions of light years away, whereby the images and events that they are seeing now, took place millions of years ago. Also used in measuring stellar distances is the Parsec unit of measurement which spans about 3.26 light years.

So, it doesnt mean that it would take a million years. it depends on howmany light years the star you see is farther from earth. Do the math...

I quoted your statements above just for reference. If you really meant the same meaning as mine, just take it easy..

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_year

http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01944/light.htm

yeah i know that its a unit of distance.

But there r some faraway galaxies that are millions of light year away.

[koolbluez]

lets add some more... :D
* Back in 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males
* A galactic year is 250 million Earth-years. This is the time it takes for our solar system to make one revolution around the Milky Way Galaxy.
* A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.
* A moment is also an actual time unit. According to an old English time unit, a moment takes 1.5 minutes, but by rabbinical reckoning a moment is precisely 19/270 of an hour.
* A 13-year-old boy in India produced winged beetles in his urine after hatching the eggs in his body.
* Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by ten years.
* If all the gold sitting in the oceans and seas were mined, every person on this planet would get about 20 kilograms of gold each.
* A crocodile can open and close its jaw but cannot move it side to side.
* An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
* 93% of all greeting cards are purchased by women.
* In Italy, Santa Claus is known by the name Babbo Natale.
* Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket.
* America's favorite Crayola crayon color is blue. (no wonder Ŝupər♂ is famous there :D)
* Japan uses the most energy per year than any other country.
* In Japan, the number four is considered to be unlucky because the Japanese word for four sounds very similar to the word death.
* In the U.S. the most common excuse made to get out of paying a ticket is to say they missed the sign.
* Barbie's boyfriend Ken was not sold in India until recently because it clashed with the traditional arranged marriage.
* BTW, Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
* A leech has 32 brains. A slug, on the other hand, has four noses. An octopus, three hearts. Earthworms,5 hearts. An owl, three eyelids.
* France is known as the perfume capital of the world.
* Traveling by air is the safest means of transportation.
* The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
* A turtle can breathe through its butt.
* In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
* The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
* According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.
* It costs about 3 cents to make a $1 bill in the United States.
* Oral-B is a combination of oral hygiene and the letter B, which stands for the word better.
* Centipedes always have an uneven pairs of walking legs.
* The first toilet being flushed in a motion picture was in the movie "Psycho."
* The only king without a moustache in a deck of cards is the king of hearts.

[eggman]

* In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.

I don't agree with this one. There's no such technology to see through people's clothes.......

[koolbluez]

I don't agree with this one. There's no such technology to see through people's clothes.......The TR250PK were the ones mentioned. See how it did it (http://www.kaya-optics.com/products/experiments.shtml) :D

See this too. (http://www.advanced-intelligence.com/camcorders.html)

Result of a google search (http://www.google.com/search?&q=1998+Sony+700000+camcorders+see+through+clothes) :D

[eggman]

The TR250PK were the ones mentioned. See how it did it (http://www.kaya-optics.com/products/experiments.shtml) :D

See this too. (http://www.advanced-intelligence.com/camcorders.html)

Result of a google search (http://www.google.com/search?&q=1998+Sony+700000+camcorders+see+through+clothes) :D

Woah.............tumne to meri aankhein khol di.............

Those ppl were really lucky.........

[max_demon]

yone intrested in selling that old camcorder?i can give 900$ for that really!

[piyush gupta]

super cool man

[mayanks_098]

good ones yaar

keep this up.

[Nav11aug]

such a thing does not exist machaan ...i think it was mentioned in Digit itself :mrgreen: :D ,thaaaaaaaaaat special issue on Convergence ...loved it and u knw wht , Kevin Warwick came to our coll last year