Thursday, August 27, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
FACTS
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 (suck blood) as they need protein to lay eggs.
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
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
Rightfoot, 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=20 like it's 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
25. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!!
26. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
27. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot.
28. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
29. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
Reaches 2-6 years of age
30. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
FROM THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS ENGINEERING FEATS
Basilica of our Lady of Peace, Yamoussoukro o.
Inside sitting capacity………..18,000 Outside overflow capacity….100, 000
WORLD'S BIGGEST INDOOR SWIMMING-POOL
World Water Park ….. Edmonton , Albert , Canada …………..SIZE….5 Acres
WORLD'S BIGGEST OFFICE COMPLEX ………… CHICAGO
Chicago Merchandise Mart….. Illinois , USA
WORLD'S BIGGEST SHOPPING MALL
South China Mall, Dongguan, China ………892,000 meter-square
Shops on 6 floors
WORLD'S BUSIEST AIRPORT …………… NEW YORK
J.F.K International Airport , New York ………………..USA
WORLD'S WIDEST BRIDGE ……… AUSTRALIA
Sydney harbor bridge, Australia ……..16 lanes of car traffic…..8 lanes in the upper floor, 8 in the lower floor
WORLD'S LONGEST BRIDGE …………… CHINA
Donghai Bridge , China ……………………32.5 kilometers
WORLD'S BIGGEST PASSENGER-SHIP
MS Freedom of the Seas……4300 passenger Capacity Inside
WORLD'S BIGGEST PLANE ……………AIRBUS
Airbus A380………..555 Passengers
WORLD'S BIGGEST BUS
Neoplan Jumbo - cruiser……..2 in 1 bus….double deck bus……170 passenger capacity
WORLD'S HIGHEST STATUE…………….BRAZIL
CHRIST THE REDEEMER STATUE…..RIO.D.J………BRAZIL
WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING ……… DUBAI
Burj Dubai……….900 meters high. To be finally completed 2008
WORLD'S LARGEST PALACE………………… .ROMANIA
Palace of the Parliament…..Bucharest, Romania ………. more than 500 bedrooms, 55 kitchens,120 sitting rooms
WORLD'S BIGGEST STADIUM ……… .BRAZIL
MARACANA STADIUM………… RIO D.J…………BRAZIL……………CAPACITY…199,000
WORLD'S COSTLIEST STADIUM ……… ENGLAND
New WEMBLEY STADIUM, London….90, 000 capacities…………….cost…..$1.6 billion
MOST COMPLEX INTER-CHANGE ……… TEXAS
Interstate 10 Highways Interchange……Houston, Texas.
WORLD'S BIGGEST EXCAVATOR
Built by KRUPP of Germany………….45,500 tons……95 meters high……215 meters long
WORLD'S LARGEST MOSQUE ……………… PAKISTAN
Shah Feisal mosque…..Islamabad……Pakistan
Inside hall capacity ….35, 000 outside overflow capacity…… 150,000
WORLD'S BIGGEST HOTEL ……… LAS VEGAS
MGM Grand Hotel….Las Vegas….6, 276 rooms
WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE HOTEL … DUBAI … U.A.E
Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai….only 7 Star Hotel in the World
Cheapest room…$1000 per night.…..Royal suit…$28,000 per night
WORLD'S BIGGEST CHURCH BUILDING ……… NIGERIA
Winners` Chapel…….Canaanland ………. Otta…..…Nigeria
Inside Sitting Capacity……50,000 Outside Overflow Capacity……250,000
WORLD'S BIGGEST ROMAN-CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL ………… IVORY-COAST
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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