Bits of wisdom.....

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Rohit Nangia
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you
would have produced enough sound energy to heat one
cup of coffee.
(Hardly seems worth it.)

If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months,
enough gas is produced to create the energy of an
atomic bomb.
(Now that's more like it!)

The human heart creates enough pressure when it
pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
(O.M.G.!)

A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
(In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head
before it starves to death. (Creepy.)
(I'm still not over the pig.)

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a
hour
(Don't try this at home, maybe at work)

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its
head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex
by ripping the male's head off.
("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's
like a human jumping the length of a football field.
(30 minutes..lucky pig! Can you imagine?)

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
(What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

Some lions mate over 50 times a day
(I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality
over quantity)

Butterflies taste with their feet.
(Something I always wanted to know.)

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
(Hmmmmmm......)

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years
longer than left-handed people.
(If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)


Elephants are the only animals that cannot jump.
(okay, so that would be a good thing)

A cat's urine glows under a black light.
(I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that.)

Starfish have no brains
(I know some people like that too.)

Polar bears are left-handed.
(If they switch, they'll live a lot longer)

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have
sex for pleasure.
(What about that pig??)
 
some very interesting facts complemented wid thoughtful opinions.
keep it up way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
***Nestle is the worlds largest consumer food company.

***Aniruddha Bahal's debut novel(her first) is 'Bunker 13'.

***'To kill a mocking bird' which won the Pulitzer prize, is the only

book of auther Harper Lee.

***Mama Leon's kitchen is place of birth of Garfield , a cartoon

charector.

***Castle Combe circuit is considered the fastest cicuit in car racing

***jankidas mehre was the firstproduction designer in the Indian Film

history. He was only Indian to have a world record in cycling betwwen

1934 and 1942. He was the auther of books' My misadventures in Fimland

and 'Acting for Biginners'.
 
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 SaharaDesertin 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. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the
sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.

22. 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 its smiling.

23. The color blue can have a calming affect on people.

24. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up to 11
tranquilizing chemicals to calm the body Leonardo daVinci could write
with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know
why his pictures were exquisite!!

25. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil),
Mikazaru (Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).

26. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its
head are the rabbit and parrot.

27. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a
letter is uncopyrightable.

28. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the
child reaches 2-6 years of age

29. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.

30. All U.S.Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn't
like to be seen wearing them in public.

31. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver,
and purple.

32. Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before EATING
 
here are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances.
Mercedes:
This was actually the financier's daughter's name.

Adobe:
This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

Apple Computers:
It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a
better name by 5 O'clock.

CISCO:
It is not an acronym as popularly believed.It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq:
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel:
The name was derived from the founder's name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google:
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word form the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey
Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google'
 
Hotmail:
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia (Indian) came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for hotmail as it
included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard:
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel:
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes):
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

MICROSOFT:
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Motorola:
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE:
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers
to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larrymin and Bob decided to finish what they started
and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony:
It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN:
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a
UNIX-based OS for the computer.
 
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