Did You Know 11

* A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

* The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

* "Go", is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

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

* If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Did You Know 10

* Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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

* Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.

* On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

* Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.

Did You Know 09

>>> The Doorbell was invented in 1831.

>>> The first Zoo in the USA was in Philadelphia.

>>> A Boeing 747s Wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's First Flight.

>>> The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.

>>> The number of people alive on Earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died ever.

Did You Know 08

>>> A Cat has 32 Muscles in each Ear.

>>> A Dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

>>> Venus is the only Planet that rotates Clockwise.

>>> The average Chocolate Bar has 8 insect Legs in it.

>>> Camel's Milk has 10 times more iron than Cow's Milk.

Did You know 07

Seahorse

The slowest fish is the seahorse, which moves along at about 0.01 mph.

Dog
Dogs’ nose prints are as unique as human fingerprints and can be used to identify them.

Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards and their wings can beat at up to 80 times per second.

Poodle
Contrary to popular belief, French poodles actually originated in Germany. Maybe you should’ve named her Gretl instead of Fifi.

Pig
Pigs communicate constantly with one another; more than 20 vocalizations have been identified that pigs use in different situations, from wooing mates to saying, “I’m hungry!”

Did You Know 06

>>> Cat's urine glows under a black-light.

>>> A crocodile can't stick it's tongue out.

>>> Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

>>> Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

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

Did You Know 05

>>> An Ostrich's Eye is bigger than its Brain.

>>> It's impossible to sneeze with your Eyes open.

>>> Tigers have striped Skin, not just striped Fur.

>>> There are more Chickens than People in the world.

>>> "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Did You Know 04

>>> Toilet Paper was invented in 1857.

>>> The Oldest known Vegetable is the Pea.

>>> Happy Birthday (the song) is Copyrighted.

>>> Japan is the largest Exporter of Frog's Legs.

>>> The Cigarette Lighter was invented before the Match.

Did You Know 03

>> A Zebra is White with Black Stripes.

>> A Hippopotamus can run faster than a Man.

>> Electricity doesn't move through a Wire but through a field around the Wire.

>> Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See No Evil), Mikazaru (Hear No Evil) and Mazaru (Speak No Evil).

>> All the Planets in the Solar System rotate Anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only Planet that rotates Clockwise.

The Important Things in Life

A Philosophy Professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.

He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The Professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up the remaining open areas of the jar.

He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “Yes.”

“Now,” said the Professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The rocks are the important things – your family, your partner, your health, your children – things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter – like your job, your house, your car. The sand is everything else, the small stuff.”

“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party, or fix the disposal.”

“Take care of the rocks first – the things that really matter. Set Your Priorities. The rest is just Sand.”

The Best of Murphy's Law 07

01. Work smarter and not harder and be careful of your spelling.

02. Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.

03. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.

04. All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

05. To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Did You Know 02

01. Women blink nearly Twice as much as Men.

02. Honey is the only food that does Not Spoil.

03. You can't kill Yourself by holding Your Breath.

04. The Elephant is the only Mammal that Can't Jump.

05. Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than Toenails.

The Best of Murphy's Law 06

01. When all else fails, read the instructions.

02. If it's not in the computer, it doesn't exist.

03. The first myth of management is that it exists.

04. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

05. Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.

Did You Know the following 5 Facts

01. Women blink nearly twice as much as Men.

02. A Crocodile cannot stick out its Tongue.

03. Rubber Bands last longer when Refrigerated.

04. The Electric Chair was invented by a Dentist.

05. It's physically impossible for You to lick Your Elbow.

The Best of Murphy's Law 05

01. If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.

02. Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

03. If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.

04. We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.

05. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

Some Interesting Things 02

1. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

2. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

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

4. A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

5. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

Some Interesting Things 01

1. A Cat has 32 Muscles in each Ear.

2. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.

3. A Crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

4. Almonds are a member of the peach family.

5. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

The Best of Murphy's Law 04

01. All's well that ends.

02. New Systems generate New Problems.

03. The only perfect science is hind-sight.

04. Everything that goes up must come down.

05. All great discoveries are made by mistake.

The Best of Murphy's Law 03

01. Give all orders verbally. Never write anything down that might go into a "Pearl Harbor File."

02. A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

03. Some people manage by the book, even though they don't know who wrote the book or even what book.

04. The opulence of the front office decor varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm.

05. The more cordial the buyer's secretary, the greater the odds that the competition already has the order.

06. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

07. In designing any type of construction, no overall dimension can be totalled correctly after 4:30 p.m. On Friday.

08. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

09. The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

10. If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

Amazing Brain Facts

The Brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it. - William F. Allman in Apprentices of Wonder. Inside the Neural Network Revolution, 1989.

The brain is the most amazing and complex organ in this universe and its research continues to throw up new facts that surprise’s us. The brain is capable of being modified or improved even as we age. It is never used to its full capacity.

1. The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 or 100 billion neurons. From the age of 35 years about 7000 neurons are lost daily.

2. During early pregnancy the neurons in the fetus can multiply at a rate 250,000 neurons/minute.

3. Brain is composed of 75 to 80% water. Dehydration can affect proper functioning of brain.

4. Brain consists of 60% White matter and 40% Grey matter. White is the supporting matter and Grey is the thinking matter of the brain. If the brain was a computer the grey matter would be the computer itself and the white matter its cables.

5. Adult brain weighs about 3 pounds or 1300 to 1400 Grams. This is about 2% of the body weight if you weigh 150 pounds or 70 kgs. Sperm whale’s brain weighs 7800 gms.

6. Although the brain only accounts for 2 percent of our body weight but it consumes 20% of the oxygen that we breathe and roughly 20 percent of our daily calories.

7. 15-20% of all blood pumped out of the heart goes directly to the brain.

8. All the thinking in the brain is about electricity and chemicals. The brain is more active and thinks more at night than during the day.

9. The brain itself is incapable of feeling pain. Once the skull is opened it is possible to operate on the brain with the patient awake.

10. You can’t feel your own tickle either. The brain is smart enough to neutralize the sensation. The cerebellum sends a signal to rest of the brain of your intentions and as a result the sensation is ignored.