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It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body. It's been proven that people can lessen reactions to allergies by laughing. Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day.Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day. In the middle ages, people would pin the name of their sweetheart to their sleeve on Valentine's Day and keep it there for a week, hence 'wearing their heart on their sleeve'. It was during the Victorian era that the formerly nude Cupid was redesigned as wearing a skirt. The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!! February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. Tomato Ketchup was once used as medicine in the United States. Was sold as "Dr.Miles Compound Extract of Tomato" When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red. Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury . The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second. An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards. Shoe sizes were standardized in Britain in 1885 The average person's eyes will be closed about 30 minutes a day due to blinking. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die. There are at least 40 known carcinogens in cigarettes. The earliest British expeditions tackling Everest wore tweed jackets, woolen underwear, and leather boots.The amniotic fluid that surrounds a baby in the womb is completely replaced every three hours. During World War II, twice as many fighter pilots were killed during training than combat In 1962 an outbreak of contagious laughter in Tanganyika lasted for six months and caused schools to be closed

A nautical mile measures 6,080 feet while a land or statute mile is 5,280 feet No one can drown in the Dead Sea. It is 25 percent salt, which makes the water very heavy Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water Earth's oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water Children who are breastfed tend to have an I.Q. seven points higher than children who are not. The bird flu virus could evolve into a form that is easily spread between people, resulting in a highly contagious and lethal disease. The Chinese, in olden days, used marijuana only as a remedy for dysentery. If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth. To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers Heroin is the brand name of morphine once marketed by 'Bayer'. Communications giant Nokia was founded in 1865 as a wood-pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult! People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport. Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined. Astronauts can't belch- there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs. Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash. The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off! Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds. The night of January 20 is "Saint Agnes's Eve," which is regarded as a time when a young woman dreams of her future husband. There are over 25 million bubbles waiting to burst out of each bottle of Champagne Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

The "heat" of peppers is rated on the Scoville scale Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. Each year 2,000,000 $m0kers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases. When it originally appeared in 1886 - Coca Cola was billed as an Esteemed Brain Tonic and Intellectual Beverage. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers. The song, "Auld Lang Syne" is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the new year. For every real Christmas tree harvested, two to three seedlings are planted in its place. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450�F The Shell Oil Company originally began as a novelty shop in London that sold seashells The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density Fish and Chip selling officially remained an offensive trade until 1940 due to the smell it produces The University of Alaska spans four time zones The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself. In ancient Greece, tossing an apple to a girl was a traditional proposal of marriage. Catching it meant she accepted. Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil). Warner Comm. paid $28 million for the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. A comet's tail always points away from the sun The "Swine flu" vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines. The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity. If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day. When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight Trivia is the Roman goddess of sorcery, hounds and... the crossroads In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the buttons on the left Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down The painting that won second place in a competition held by the US National Academy of Design was hanging upside down when it was judged Everything weighs one percent less at the equator For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements Snake venom is ninety percent protein Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature

Pizza Hut is the world's largest pizza restaurant serving close to 1.7 million pizzas a day Beer foam will go down by licking your finger then sticking it in the beer Those stars and colors you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes A full-moon is nine times brighter than a half-moon If all of the blood vessels in your body were placed end to end, they would stretch 12,000 miles If you were to roll a lung from a human body and out flat it would be the size of a tennis court Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints Two-thirds of the people in the world have not made a phone call Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders Earth is traveling through space at 660,000 miles per hour In 1643, the British Parliament officially abolished the celebration of Christmas Santa's Reindeers are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen In 1875 the director of the US patent office resigned. He said that there was nothing left to invent The Channel between England and France grows about 300 millimeters each year The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name On average, a person has two million sweat glands Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times. Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it. The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples 97% of the earth's water is undrinkable The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it

All babies are color blind when they are born Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old 14 million people were killed in World War I, 20 million died in flu epidemic in the years that followed There are more than 40,000 characters in the Chinese script Vision requires more brain power than the other four senses On average, men are 40% muscle and 15% fat; women are 23% muscle and 25% fat There are no public toilets in Peru Urine and tears have the same basic ingredients The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee. Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die. Historically, a blue ribbon has been awarded for first prize The motto of M-G-M movie studios is Art for Art's Sake The lion that roars in the MGM logo is named "Volney" It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal. The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or nothing'. The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones. There are more Rolls Royce cars in Hong Kong than anywhere else in the world X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45 percent when a person looks at something pleasing. It takes only about 8 minutes for the Space Shuttle to accelerate to a speed of more than 27,359 km/hour Hydroponics is the technique by which plants are grown in water without soil Time magazine named the computer its "Man of the Year" in 1982 Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears Your left lung is smaller in size than your right lung, it is like that in order to make room for your heart.

Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time Male human brains are about 10 percent heavier than female brains Before 1800 there were no separately designed shoes for right and left feet The glossy look to lipstick comes from fish scales, which are iridescent To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe Honey is used as a center for golf balls and in antifreeze mixtures The original name for the butterfly was 'flutterby' Your body weight is lower at 9 A.M. than at any other time of the day The average person is about a quarter of an inch taller at night 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals Without any greenhouse effect, Earth would be cold and lifeless with an average temp of 0.4�F The primary purpose of growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings. Rice can, in fact, be grown in drained areas Not a single new livestock animal has been domesticated in the last 4,000 years Bone China is so called because powdered animal bone is mixed with the clay to give it translucency and whiteness The original reason for tablecloths was as a towel to wipe one's fingers and hands on after eating Mount Everest moves approximately 2.4 inches (10 cm) in a Northeasterly direction every year Mickey Mouse has four fingers on each hand The bark of a redwood tree is fireproof. Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the trees The storage capacity of human brain exceeds four Terra bytes There are an average of 178 sesame seeds on a McDonald's Big Mac bun Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be thrown farther if it is thrown west In 2001, the five most valuable brand names in order were Coca-Cola, Microsoft, IBM, GE, and Nokia After the "Popeye" comic strip started in 1931, spinach consumption went up by 33 percent in the US A rainbow can only occur when the sun is 40 degrees or less above the horizon

At 40� Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by breathing Most gemstones contain several elements. Except the diamond it's all carbon Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction of the bubbles The "crack" from a whip is actually the tip of the whip traveling faster than the speed of sound, emitting a small sonic boom If the information contained in the DNA could be written down, it would fill a 1000 volume encyclopedia It would take 13 years and eight months to stay one night in every room at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas Brain damage occurs at an internal temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting If you gave each human on earth an equal portion of dry land, (including the uninhabitable areas) everyone would get roughly 100sqft Just twenty seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee Pearls melt in vinegar There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history Human hair and finger nails continue to grow after death Windmills always turn counter-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland Eighteen per cent of all global carbon dioxide emissions are from cars Onions get their distinctive smell by soaking up sulfur from the soil Mango is the number one selling fruit in the World. India is the biggest producer of mangoes in the World The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air No nation has ever won the Miss Universe, Miss World, and Miss International

Pageant in the same year? About 85% of the plant life on earth is in the oceans In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like it's smiling If a person counted at the rate of 100 numbers a minute and kept counting for 8 hrs a day, 5 days a week, it would take a little over 4 weeks to count to one million and just over 80 years to reach a billion An average person perspires a gut-wrenching 278 gallons of sweat each year Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made out of wood A banana is about 75% water. They grow on a rhizome, not a tree. You are more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas. Labels: Facts posted by Enjoy @ 4:00 AM 0 Comments Monday, February 19, 2007 30 Facts The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched." "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt" Almonds are members of the peach family. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Ingrown toenails are hereditary. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und." There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicros copicsilicovolca noconiosis. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicros copicsilicovolca noconiosesl. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangiha ngakoauauotamate aturipukakapikim aungahoronukupok aiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic." Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead." The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases. Labels: Facts posted by Enjoy @ 3:00 AM 0 Comments

Saturday, February 17, 2007 Beauty of Mathemazic 1 x 8 + 1 = 9 12 x 8 + 2 = 98 123 x 8 + 3 = 987 1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876 12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765 123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654 1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543 12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432 123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321 1 x 9 + 2 = 11 12 x 9 + 3 = 111 123 x 9 + 4 = 1111 1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111 12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111 123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111 1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111 12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111 123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111 9 x 9 + 7 = 88 98 x 9 + 6 = 888 987 x 9 + 5 = 8888 9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888 98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888 987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888 9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888 98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888 Brilliant, isn't it? And finally, take a look at this symmetry: 1 x 1 = 1 11 x 11 = 121 111 x 111 = 12321 1111 x 1111 = 1234321 11111 x 11111 = 123454321 111111 x 111111 = 12345654321 1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321 11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321 111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321 Labels: Facts posted by Enjoy @ 10:44 PM 1 Comments Infinite Size WHEN WE SAY BIG,HUGE EVER IMAGINED WHAT ARE WE COMPARING IT WITH.....DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR ROOM IS BIGGER THAN YOUR KID BROTHER...DO YOU THINK THAT YOUR CAR IS BIGGER THAN YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S...COMING TO THE POINT DO YOU THINK THAT THE EARTH IS HUGE.... IF YOU THINK SO...THEN SCROLL DOWN AND I AM SURE YOU'LL THINK AGAIN.....

Labels: Facts, Informative, Nature posted by Enjoy @ 10:44 PM 0 Comments 50 Things 50 THINGS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW 1 The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed. 2 Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. 3 Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions! 4 What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France. 5 "Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order. 6 "Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel. 7 In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child. 8 A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off! 9 Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete. 10 You can't kill yourself by holding your breath1. 11 There is a city called Rome on every continent. 12 It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland! 13 Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day! 14 Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness. 15 The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London. 16 Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. 17 Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe! 18 The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump! 19 One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet! 20 Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different! 21 The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when JeanBaptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man. 22 Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails! Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin! 23 The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080. 24 Women blink nearly twice as much as men. 25 Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle. 26 Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible. 27 Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th." 28 Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren't added to it. 29 On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute. 30 More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes. 31 The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

32More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food. 33Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand. 34 The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times! 35The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. 36 Earth is the only planet not named after a god. 37 It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA. 38 You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206. 39 Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food! 40 Dolphins sleep with one eye open! 41 It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. 42 The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old! 43 The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds. 44 Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not. 45 Slugs have 4 noses.46 Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue. 47 A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years! 48 A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! 49 The average person laughs 10 times a day! 50 An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Labels: Facts, Informative posted by Enjoy @ 10:44 PM 0 Comments Som Facts A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue. A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes. A snail can sleep for three years. Al Capo NE's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill. Almonds are a member of the peach family. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age. Butterflies taste with their feet. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "MT". February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon. In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! Sel that it burns. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the l! Azy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid. The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes) . There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar. There are more chickens than people in the world. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself. Labels: Facts posted by Fun Time @ 7:01 PM 0 Comments Friday, February 16, 2007 Body facts

-The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm.-A full bladder is roughly the size of a soft ball. - Approximately 75% of human faeces is made of water. - It takes the food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach. -One human hair can support 3kg. - Human thighbones are stronger than concrete. -The attachment of human muscles to skin is what causes dimples. -Your thumb is the same length of your nose. - A woman's heart beats faster than a man's. - If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died. - Men without hair on their chests are more likely to get cirrhosis of the liver

than men with hair. -There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet. - Side by side, 2000 cells from the human body could cover about one square inch. - Women blink twice as much as men. -The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain. - When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. - It takes twice as long to lose new muscle if you stop working out than it did to gain it. -You're ears secrete more earwax when you are afraid than when you aren't. -Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still. - If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it. -The average woman is 5 inches shorter than the average man. Labels: Facts posted by Fun Time @ 12:33 AM 0 Comments Thursday, February 15, 2007 The First The First... ( INDIAN ) Actress of the Talkies Zubeida, Alam Ara(1931) Actress to win Padma Shri Award Nargis Dutt(1958) Architect Maha Govinda(5th C.BC) Aryabhatta Medal Winner K.R. Ramanathan(1977) Bharat Ratna Award Winner C.Rajgopalachari( 1954) British Governor General of Indian Union Lord Louis Mountbatten( Aug. 15, 1947June 20, 1948) Captain of Test Cricket C.K.Nayudu(1932) Century in Test Cricket Lala Amarnath(1933- 1934) Chairman of Rajaya Sabha S.V.Krishnamoorthy( 1952) Chevalier Award Winner Sivaji Ganesan Chief Election Commissioner Sukumar Sen(1950-1958) Chief Justice of India Hiralal J.Kania(1950- 1951)

Chief of Air Staff Sir Thomas Elmhirst(1947- 1950) Chief of Army Staff to die in harness B.C.Joshi(1994) Chief of Coast Guard V.A.Kamath(1978- 1980) Chief of Naval Staff R.D.Katari(1958- 1962) Commander-in- Chief K.M.Cariappa( 1949-1953) Cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma(1984) Cricketer to have battled in all positions(1 to 11) Vinoo Mankad Dada Saheb Phalke Award Winner Devika Rani Roerich(1969) Dancer to perform abroad Uday Shankar Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel(1947-1950) Deputy Prime Minister to die in harness Vallabhbhai Patel(1950) Elected President S.Radhakrishnan( 1962-1967) Emperor of Mughal Dynasty Babar(1526-1530) Field Marshal S.H.F.J.Manekshaw( 1973) Film Star Chief Minister M.G.Ramachandran( Tamil Nadu, 1977) Financial Minister to present the Budget three times in a row Manmohan Singh (1933, 1994, 1995) Finix Award Winner Sr.P.C.Sorcar Geometer Baudhayana, Sulva Sutras(800 BC) Governor General of British India Warren Hastings(1774- 1785) Grammarian Panini, Ashtadhyaayi( 6th C. BC) Helms Award Winner Kunwar Digvijay Singh Babu(1952) Home Minister Vallabhbhai Patel(1946) ICS Officer Satyendranath Tagore Indian Chief of Air Staff S.Mukherjee( 1954-1960) Indian Governor General of Indian Union M.Rajendra Singh(April 1, 1955-May 14, 1955) Indian Woman President of Indian National Congress Sarojini Naidu(1925) J.C.Bose Medal Winner V.Ramalingaswami( 1977) Jain Tithankara Rishabha Dev

Jananpith Award Winner G.Sankara Kurup, Odakuzhal(1965) Lady of the Indian Film Devika Rani Roerich Lata Mangeshkar Award Winner Naushad(1984) Lawgiver Manu, Manu Smirti(3100 BC) Man to climb Mount Everest without oxygen Phu Dorjee(1984) Man to climb Mount Everest Tanzing Norgay(with Edumund Hillary, 1953) Man to make solo Flight(from US to India) Satish Soman(1994) Man to swim across English Channel Mihir Sen(1966) Man to swim several Straits in one calender year Mihir Sen(1966) Managing Director of World Bank Gautam Kaji(1995) Member of British Parliament Dadabhai Naoroji(1862) Member of Viceroy's Executive Council Sir S.P.Sinha(1909) Miss Universe Sushmita Sen(1994) Miss World Reita Faria(1966) Musician to get Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushana M.S.Subbulakshmi( 1954,1975) Musician to get Ramon Magsaysay Award M.S.Subbulakshami( 1974) Naval Pilot Y.N.Singh(1941) Nishan-i-Pakistan Award Winner Morarji Desai(1991) Nobel Prize Winner Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali(1913) Olympic Medal Winner Norman Pritchard, Silver(1900) Oscar Winner Bhanu Athaiya Patricide Ajatshatru's killing of Bimbisara(494 BC) Physically handicapped mountaineer Baba Manindra Pal Pilot J.R.D.Tata, Tata Airlines(1929) Presentation of Budget R.K.Shanmugham Chetty, Finance Minister(1947) Presentation of General Budget C.D.Deshmukh, Finance Minister(1952) President Rajendra Prasad(1950- 1962) President of Indian National Congress W.C.Bannerjee( 1885) President of International Court of Justice Nagendra Singh(1970) President to die in harness Zakir Hussain(1967- 1969)

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru(1947-1964) Prime Minister to be assassinated Indira Gandhi(1984) Prime Minister to die in harness Jawaharlal Nerhru(1964) Prime Minister to head a minority government Choudhary Charan Singh(July 28, 1979Jan,14, 1980) Prime Minister to resign from office Morarji Desai(1979) Prime Minister who did not face Parliament Chaudhary Charan Singh(July 28, 1979Jan 14, 1980) Raman Medal Winner Salim Moinuddin Ahmed Ali(1979) Raman Magsaysay Award Winner Vinoba Bhave(1958) Recipient of Stalin Peace Prize Saifuddin Kitchlew(1954) Recipient of World Food Prize M.S.Swaminathan( 1987) S.Ramanujan Medal Winner S.Chandrashekhar( 1962) S.S.Bhatnagar Medal Winner Atma Ram(1959) Scientist Uddalaka Aruni(560 BC) Slave Ruler of India Qutb-ud-din Aibak(1206-1210) Speaker in Hindi at the UN Atal Bihari Vajpayee(1977) Speaker of Lok Sabha Ganesh Vasudeo Mavalankar(1952- 1957) Test-tube baby Baby Harsha or Indira(1986) Vice-President S.Radhakrishnan( 1952-1962) Viceroy of India Lord Canning (1858-1862) Woman (Muslim) Ruler of India Razia Sultana(1236- 1240) Woman Advocate Cornelia Sorabji(1894) Woman Ambassador Vijayalakshmi Pandit(U.S.S. R., 1947-1949) Woman at Antarctica Meher Moos(1976) Woman Central Minister Rajkumari Amrit Kaur(Health) Woman Chief Justice(of High Court) Leila Seth(Himachal Pradesh, 1991) Woman Chief Minister Sucheta Kriplani(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967) Woman Foreign Minister Lakshmi N. Menon(1957-1966) Woman Secretary General of Rajya Sabha V.S.Rama Devi(1993)

Woman Governor Sarojini Naidu(Uttar Pradesh, 1963-1967) Woman IAS Officer Anna Rajam George(1950) Woman IPS Officer Kiran Bedi(1974) Woman Jet Commander Saudamini Deshmukh Woman Jnanpithpith Award Winner Ashapurna Devi, Prathama Pratishruti( 1976) Woman Judge of Supreme Court Meera Sahib Fatima Beevi(1989) Woman Minister of State Vijayalakshmi Pandit(Uttar Pradesh, 1937) Woman Missionary Sanghamitra, daughter of King Ashoka (Sri Lanka, 3rd C.BC) Woman Pilot (Commercial) Prem Mathur(Deccan Airways, 1951) Woman Pilot (Indian Airlines) Durga Banerjee(1966- 1988) Woman President of Indian National Congress Annie Besant(1917) Woman President of UN General Assembly Vijayalakshmi Pandit(1953) Woman Prime Minister Indira Gandhi(1966- 1977, 1980-1984) Woman Sahitya Akademi Award Winner Amrita Pritam, Sunehre(1956) Woman to climb Mount Everest Bachendri Pal(1984) Woman to perform a solo Flight Harita Kaur Deol(1944) Woman to swim across English Channel Arati Saha(1959) Woman to swim across the Strait of Gibraltar Arti Pradhan Woman to win an Asian Gold Kamaljit Sandhu(1970) Woman to go in Space Dr.Kalpana Chawla(November 1997)