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Facts you must know .......

Must know Facts..

1. MOPED is the short term for ‘Motorized Pedaling‘.

2. POP MUSIC is ‘Popular Music‘ shortened.

3. BUS is the short term for ‘Omnibus‘ that means everybody.

4. FORTNIGHT comes from ‘Fourteen Nights‘ (Two Weeks).

5. DRAWING ROOM was actually a ‘withdrawing room‘ where people withdrew after Dinner. Later the prefix ‘with‘ was dropped..

6. NEWS refers to information from Four directions N, E, W and S..

7. AG-MARK, which some products bear, stems from ‘Agricultural Marketing‘.

8. JOURNAL is a diary that tells about ‘Journey for a day‘ during each Day‘s business.

9. QUEUE comes from ‘Queen‘s Quest‘. Long back a long row of people as waiting to see the Queen. Someone made the comment Queen‘s Quest..

10. TIPS come from ‘To Insure Prompt Service‘. In olden days to get Prompt service from servants in an inn, travelers used to drop coins in a Box on which was written ‘To Insure Prompt Service‘. This gave rise to the custom of Tips.

11. JEEP is a vehicle with unique Gear system. It was invented during World War II (1939-1945). It was named ‘General Purpose Vehicle (GP)‘.GP was changed into JEEP later.

12. Coca-Cola was originally green.

13. The most common name in the world is Mohammed..

14. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

15. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

16. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

17. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

18. You can‘t kill yourself by holding your breath.

19. It is impossible to lick your elbow.

20.. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

21. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

22. The "sixth sick sheik‘s sixth sheep‘s sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

23. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
     >> Spades - King David
     >> Clubs - Alexander the Great,
     >> Hearts - Charlemagne
     >> Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

24. Horse Statue in a Park…
     >> If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.
     >> If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle
     >> If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

25. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

26. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

27. A snail can sleep for three years.

28. All polar bears are left handed.

29. Butterflies taste with their feet.

30. Elephants are the only animals that can‘t jump.

31. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

32. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

33. Shakespeare invented the word ‘assassination‘ and ‘bump‘.

34. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

35. The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

36. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

37. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

38. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

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

40. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

41. The cigarette lighter was invented before the matchbox.

42. Most lipstick contains fish scales.


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Top Five Social Networking Sites (top-5)

Nowadays Every one of us use social networking  .

There are several social networking sites with specific uses,advantages,and disadvantages.

According to recent surveys by several tech-organizations and organizations these are the top-5 social networking sites.

1.FACEBOOK

Founded by Mark Zuckerberg became an innovation in social networking and grabbed the people into its nest with  the motto of  "connecting the people and making world open".

official website : www.facebook.com


2.Myspace


Myspace is the top social networking site till the commencement of facebook . Although its rank fell down Myspace has over 50 million users from around the globe.

official website : www.Myspace.com 


3.Twitter


Twitter became famous of its popularity in micro blogging .It gathered all people ranging from common man to celebrites because of its simplicity.

official website : www.twitter.com  




4.Linked In

Professional site mostly used by business and educated people for their needs.Even some of business organizations recruited their employees through Linked In. This  became a good platform for Business Needs.


official website : www.linkedin.com  

5.Friendster 

Over 90 million users friendster is also in the race. It is the first social networking site and was in top position till 2004 .

official website : www.friendster.com  

See the complete list of social Networking sites

 List of social Networking sites  

Quotes and sayings of swami vivekananda-2

quotes and sayings of Swami vivekananda -1 ........

Monthly quotes for July......

Read ONE quote for a day through out a month and improve your lifestyle.....

These are available  for this month....

1. True guidance is like a small lamp in a dark forest. It doesn't show everything at once, but gives enough light for the next step to be safe.
 

2. A "True Friend" may not be able to give their life for you. But they can definitely give your life back to you when you think you lost it.
 

3.successful people don't plan results, They plan beginnings. Right results always follow right beginnings.Have a right beginning.
 

4.when your commitment is deeper than the sea and your ambition is taller than the sky - then your future will be brighter than the sun.
 

5.Two sentences decide progress:" The way you Interact when you have nothing in your hand" and " The way you manage when you have everything in your hand.
 

6.Always, Honour&  pray for those who helped you in your "Bad Time". Also be thankful to bad time, for showing you - those who are yours....
 

7.Don't place your mistakes on your head , place them under your feet & use them as a platform to view your horizons.
 

8.There are some who live in a Dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the others.
 

9.we love ourself even after doing many mistakes.
Then how can we hate others for their one mistake. So think before you hate someone.
 

10.Coins always make sound. But the currency notes are always silent, so when your value increases, keep yourself calm and silent.
 

11.Best cosmetic for lips is truth, for voice is prayer, for eyes is pity , for hands is charity and for heart is care always keep these in your beauty box(Heart).
 

12.Expect the people you love to be better.It helps them to become better. But don't get upset when they  

fail.It helps them keep trying.
 

13.Have patience-patience with family is love,patience with others is respect , patience with self is confidence & patience with god is "FAITH"
 

14.sometimes we wonder why friends is because they have nothing to say, but still want to keep in touch.
 

15."Good relations are like needles of clock , they only meet for sometimes but always stay connected."
 

16.Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
 

17.Life without a friend is a death without  a witness.
 

18.Don't depend on others to serve your personal needs become your own servant before proceeding to serve others.
 

19.It is not all important how much you love others.It is far more important how much others love you.
 

20.Love ignores logic, love does not calculate result or reward.
 

21.No worship can succeed unless the heart is pure and the senses are mastered.
 

22.use the body as a boat to cross the ocean of life with devotion and detachment.
 

23.Examine your conduct and discover the faults in yourself. Self examination is the first step for self improvement and peace.
 

24.Anger , Ego , jealousy are the biggest diseases. yourself aloof from these diseases
 

25.Be fair, Be true, strong in your convictions.then you have my blessings in all that undertake.
 

26.Love is the manner of speaking, truth is the substance, Dharma is the language , shanti the result aimed at it
 

27.True devotion is that .... which enables your love to flow constantly towards god, regardless of any results, without expecting any reward.
 

28.Life is as unreal as Dream. Do not get attached to it beyond reasonable limits.
 

29. The life is not one way traffic. We should always be prepared to give  and take.
 

30. There are four 'F' s that you will have to fix before your attention

•  follow the master
•  face the devil
• fight to the end
• finish at the goal

31) The goal of education is character. The Goal of knowledge is love. The goal of culture is perfection. The goal of wisdom is freedom.

Thank you....

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Fast track Facts...........(july-2011)

 Must know facts........

1. Andaman is a group of 204 islands of which the largest is middle andaman.
 

2.The union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep are made up of Islands only.
 

3. The "vedas" mean knowledge in sanskrit.
 

4.Billgates house was designed using macinthosh computer

which is brand of the microsoft's rival company.
 

5. It is illegal to own a redcar in Shangai city - china
 

6.People with blue eyes see better in dark
 

7.The country with largest production of rubber in the world is Indonesia
 

8.Rose is the national flower of Great Britan.
 

9.The age of a tree can be known by counting the annual growth rings in the stem.
 

10.It takes approximately 12 hours for food to get digested entirely
 

11.Cheetah's can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h in three seconds
 

12.There are average 2 credit cards for every person in US.
 

13. The author of the book,"The man who divided India""...Rafiq zakaria
 

14.A Jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100 the second.
 

15.A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
 

16. India has most post offices in the world.
 

17.90% of all the ice in the world is on Antarctica.
 

18.South Africa was 1st in production of gold for more than 100 years but now it is surpassed to china.
 

19.Symbolics.com is the first ever internet domain registered in 1985.
 

20.There are more pyramids in peru than in Egypt.
 

21.Oslo is the capital city of Norway.
 

22. world Music Day is celebrated on 21st june.
 

23.Samba is the native dance of Brazil.
 

24.A violin have four strings.
 

25. Venice is the city known as city of canals.
 

26.The Mauna Lova in Hawai is the largest volcano in the world.
 

27.The official distance of marathon is 42.195 km.
 

28.Sharks lay biggest eggs in the world.
 

29.Manometer measures pressure of gases.
 

30.Venturimeter measures the pressure of Gases.
 

31.The Brain weighs about 1.5 kg in an adult human.

Thank you......

DID YOU KNOW-1(Useful knowledge)

DID YOU KNOW THESE...????

Kiwi bird

1. onions have no flavour . They just have smell.

2. Its not just the humans are right or left handed. Even dogs and cats are that way.

3. Not less than 15 billion cigarettes are smoked world wide every day.
 

4. kiwis are the only birds, which hunt by sense of smell
 

5. There are more than 50 different kinds of kangaroos.
 

6. Longest life span of a frog was 40 years.
 

7. Your nose and eyes continue growing thoughout your entire life.,
 

Human Heart

8. Heart beats around1,00,000 times a day.
 

9.Female lions are better hunters than male lions.
 

10.Olympic gold medals are mostly made of silver.
 

11.The word engineer comes from a latin word meaning "cleverness"
 

12.Humans get a little taller in space because there is no gravity pull in the space.
 

13.Because of the unusual shape of their legs, Kangaroos and emus struggle to walk backwards.
 

14.The USA  uses 29% of the world's petrol and 33% of the world's electricity.
 

octopus

15.octopus have three hearts.
 

16.The Brain 1.5 kgs in an adult human.
 

17. The Index fingure of Statue of Liberty is eight feet long.
 

shark

18. Sharks can live upto 100 years.
 

19.Even when a snake has its eyes eyes closed , it can still see through its eyelids.
 

20.As 2009, the USA has 8133 tones of Gold reserves and while canada only has 3.

Thank you...........