amazing facts

[NM]

DS...you seem to be having a gala time changing your avatar!! Thought I just a shark a while ago!!

[Deep_Secrets]

DS...you seem to be having a gala time changing your avatar!! Thought I just a shark a while ago!!

That was ugly

[Deep_Secrets]

You konw I tinhk taht you can olny raed the msesed up wdros if you hvae hared of tehm bfoere. Smeonoe (how about PP madam :P ) wirte a senetcne in relaly dfifcilut egnilsh and see if I am rgiht...

[scorpio]

http://y.20q.net/anon

Nice link..the program tries to find out what we have in mind by asking simple questions.. you'll be declared as the winner if you make it use more than 30 questions to guess the object you have in mind.. interesting time-pass.

[NM]

Scorpio, tried that, very interetsing, and I learnt a bit too....

[scorpio]

Attention-All Horlicks Moms! Received this via mail today!

Many parents in India give Horlicks to their children in hopes that it will
help them excel in studies.

In UK, Horlicks is sold as an aid to promoting sleep at night and the
manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, is recommending a glass of Horlicks before going to bed to have a good sleep.

Horlicks is sold in India and UK. If you Visit www.horlicks.com, you'll
find that the Horlicks India website is still under construction (at the
time of writing this email in May 2005), whereas the UK site www.horlicks.co.uk is up and running and clearly documents sleep related problems and how Horlicks helps in sleeping.

Malt contained in drinks such as Horlicks, Ovaltine, etc., is responsible
for promoting sleep. People who drink alchohol will be familiar with malt,especially with barley malt, which is used in the process of producing beer, lager, etc. You might have even heard of malt whiskey.

Let me be clear in stating that I'm not advocating against horlicks or any other similar drink containing malt. My only goal of this email is raise the level of awareness among parents that Horlicks helps in
sleeping and hence, should "not" be given to students while they're trying to study!

Many average children are already stressed out due to overload at school.What is the point in making them drowsy and sleepy when they go to schoolor when they are trying to study!

Initially I dint believe this, but went thru the site and found the verses
stated below.
http://www.horlicks.co.uk/main.html

[NOV]

1)Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

2)The youngest pope was 11 years old.

3)A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

4)Henry Ford once attempted to buy the Eiffel Tower and ship it back to the United States.

5)During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of 6 elephants!

6)More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones!

7)A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over a hundred m.p.h.!

8)Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breath!!!

9)One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

10)Charles Osborn had the hiccups for 65 years!

11)Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older!

12)Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

13)Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing!!!!!!!!!

14)Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


15)On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pins each year!

16)Mosquitoes have teeth*

*a goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.*

*A star fish has no heart*

*Dolphins sleep with one eye open*

*Alligators can't move backwards*

*Penguins can jump 6 feet into the air*

*Honeybees have a kind of hair on their eyes*

*Starfish is one of the few animals who can turn their stomach inside out*

*The elephant is one of the few animals that can't jump*

*Bats always turn left when exiting a cave*

*The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn it's head*

*On average, people fear spiders more than they do death*


17)Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

18)What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

19)"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

20)"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

21)In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

22)A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

23)Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

24)You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

25)There is a city called Rome on every continent.

26)It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

27)Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

28)Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

[Badri]

Some one at work sent this to me!! The Pope referred to here was the last Pope John Paul II



The Pope died 02.04.2005 -> 2+4+2+5= 13

The time of his death is: 21:37 -> 2+1+3+7= 13

This is week 13 in year 2005

He was the Pope for 26 years and 5 months -> 2+6+5= 13

which is 9301 days -> 9+3+0+1= 13

13 May -> he was shot by would-be assassin

By years, the Pope was 85 -> 8+5=13

Karol Wojtya had been chosen for Pope when 58. Again it's 13

John Paul II was 265th Pope -the sum of these numbers is ...13

[HindustaniLadka]

Here are some facts about India(forgive me if someone already posted these earlier):

The first advanced civilization started in India(The Vedic Civilization of the Indus Valley Area).

Indian Civilizations were the first to use metal.

India has the fourth largest navy in the world.

India has the second largest army in the world.

The Indian language, Sanskrit, is known to be the mother of all higher langauges and it is the most flawless language in the world.

According to Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the only language that is suitable to make a computer programming language.

Chess was invented in India.

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).

The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

India is the largest democracy in the world and the sixth largest country in the world.

India has the most post offices in the world.

India has the largest bus system in the world.

Indias railway is the largest employer in the world. It employs over a MILLION people.

The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.

The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.

Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.

Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.

Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth.

38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
12% of Scientists in America are Indians.
36% of NASA employees are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of Intel employees are Indians.
13% of Xerox employees are Indians.

Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Mark Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

The IAF was the first airforce to fly Jets in Asia.

India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

India is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.

India is the world's largest consumer of gold. And, by year 2000 the Indian market for gold will reach 1000 tons.

India is one of the biggest players in the international fashion arena. Buyers such as Macys, Levi's, Wrangler, etc. all flock to India for its vast array of cloths and prints.

The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC.

India has one of the largest middle classes in the world nearly 250 million people which is the total population of the United States.

USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

[r_kk]

Here are some facts about India(forgive me if someone already posted these earlier):

According to Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the only language that is suitable to make a computer programming language.


India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

India is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.

India is the world's largest consumer of gold. And, by year 2000 the Indian market for gold will reach 1000 tons.

Hi HL,
some of your statements are not true. Even though I appreciate your proudness of being Indian, the above statements or being proud about old history are going to bring any real source of wealth or happiness to any one.

As on today, sanskrit is spoken by very limited people and its application to computer programming is highly questionable. Can you please explain how it is better than any other language for programming?

As usual with many kings, Indian Kings also equally egoistic and fought many wars with other Indian Kings for useless reasons. Raja Rajan could able to reach Indinesia and Srilanka. If you call all these countries as part of old India, your claims may be correct. The other major reason for not imposing war on other countries is that India is being land locked by Himalyas and seas.

"India is the only society has never know slavery....!!!"
... surprising news. We can tell India is the only country still slavery exist in the form of caste system.

Regarding the quantity of Gold purchased by Indians... Gold is the form of locked or unflow money. In a real economical development of a country such large blockage of money by individual in the form of Gold will not bring any growth to the country. We can tell differently that India is the one of the place where lot of money is invested on useless decorative jewells (also part of money transfer in illegal practices like dowry, black money storage etc).