Some Useful (or Useless ??) Infos

Boka

Disciple
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros

Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying jag of Flapan, instead of flag of Japan

It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it :huh:

The attachment of the human skin to muscles is what causes dimples

There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower

The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting :huh:

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death :ashamed:

It takes about 20 seconds for a red blood cell to circle the whole body

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets

Most soccer players run 7 miles in a game

The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air

Every day 200 million couples make love:hap2: , 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die

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 it is smiling.) :hap2:

Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command "go hang yourself." :rofl:

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

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.:hap2:

The average person laughs 13 times a day :rofl:

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

Women blink nearly twice as much as men

German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog

Large kangaroos cover more than 30 feet with each jump

Whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound

Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death :no:

If a statue in the park of a person 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 cause.

The human heart creates enough pressure while pumping to squirt blood 30 feet!!
 
boka said:
Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros
U sure about that? I have heard of googol which equals "10 to the power 100"

It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it :huh:
7 millions back then perhaps was as good as 700 million now.. heheh..
 
wikipedia:

A googol is the large number 10100, that is, the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The term was coined in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner announced the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination.

certainly a bit wrong info ... but still its a large number :D:D
 
How large is a googol in real terms??

Number of grains on the beacj at Coney Island(i nNew York I think) has been calculated at abt 1 followed by 20 zeros. Much much lesser than a googol.

No. of raindrops falling on London in a year or even in a century is much much lesser than a googol.

1 followed by 16 zeroes is the total number of words spoken out by mankind. Substantially less than a googol.

The number of electrons in a thimbleful of air is a slightly different matter. Electrons are so small that the number passing through the filament of an ordinary 40 watt bulb in a minute is equal to the number of drops of watr flowing over Niagara Falls in a century.

One might expect that the no. of electrons in a thimbleful of air could be expressed in googols. But it cannot be. Einstein's theories enable astrophysicists to estimate the number of electrons in the entire universe as less than a googol. Around 1 followed by 79 zeros !!! (to be as precise as scientists dare).

In fact the googol is just larger than the largest number used in Physics and Chemistry.

And the googol os not the largest number. The googolplex is larger still. 1 followed by a billion billion zeros!!!

It is hard to iimagine how much room it would take to write a googolplex. But to get some idea, there would not be enough room for it if starting at the farthest known star one took the most circuitous, longest route back to Earth writing zeros all the way.

SOURCE : Reader's Digest Publications "Strange Stories Amazing facts II". One of the priceless books I have :D
 
Nikhil said:
1 followed by 16 zeroes is the total number of words spoken out by mankind. Substantially less than a googol.
Sounds like a load of bollocks.

On record 40 billion people have died ever. Hard to believe the total number of words spoken by all of them + those currently alive only amount to 1 followed by 16 zeroes.
 
If a statue in the park of a person 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 cause.

I liked this....unknown fact!!!!

Here is my contribution:

The Mercedes-Benz motto is 'Das Beste oder Nichts' meaning 'the best or
nothing'.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the
ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

The 'v' in the name of a court case does not stand for 'versus', but for
'and' (in civil proceedings) or 'against' (in criminal proceedings)

Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, but women's shirts have the
buttons on the
left

The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other
birds raise their lower eyelids
The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested
by a bee
 
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