Author Topic: Did you know?/ Fact of the Day. (Read 55969 times)

ɯɐɹʞıʌ · « **Reply #120 on:** October 18, 2011, 11:44:33 AM »

A house fly lives only 14 days.

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A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon.

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The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.

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It is impossible to out-swim a shark – sharks reach speeds of 44 mph (70 km/h). Humans can run about 21 mph (35 km/h).

Punjabi Janta Forums - Janta Di Pasand · « **Reply #120 on:** October 18, 2011, 11:44:33 AM »

_noXiouS_ · « **Reply #121 on:** October 19, 2011, 09:39:31 AM »

The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.

ƁΔƘΓΔ · « **Reply #122 on:** November 22, 2011, 10:52:38 AM »

When a pregnant woman suffers organ damage (such as a heart attack), the fetus sends stem cells to the damaged organ to help repair it.

_noXiouS_ · « **Reply #123 on:** December 05, 2011, 02:17:45 PM »

"The purpose of yawning may be to cool down the brain." A study published in the journal Medical Hypotheses suggested that yawning -- something that has always baffled scientists -- may serve to move air through the maxillary sinuses (under and behind the eyes) and up to the brain thereby lowering its temperature. This theory would also tidily explain the function of sinuses, another curious anatomical feature. Researchers tested the theory by measuring the temperatures in rats' brains and found that temperatures tended to spike before a yawn before dipping back down, indicating that the yawns themselves were precipitated by a brain in need of cooling.

NYPuNJaBI · « **Reply #124 on:** December 08, 2011, 07:29:09 PM »

Quote from: _noXiouS_ on October 19, 2011, 09:39:31 AM

The life expectancy in 1900 was just 47 years.

Modern medicine really made the difference!

_noXiouS_ · « **Reply #125 on:** December 09, 2011, 01:23:56 PM »

Felipe II (1527-1598), king of Spain (1556-1598), son and heir of king Carlos I (emperor Carlos V) and of Isabel of Portugal, got to govern on the huge set of territories integrated by the crowns of Castilla and Aragón, Navarra, the Rosellón, the Frank County, the Netherlands, Sicily, Sardinia, the Milanesan, Naples, diverse North African seats (Orán, Tunisia), Portugal and its Afro-Asian Empire, all discovered America and Philippine.

Without doubt, the ampler territorial unit of the modern age governed by a king.

sahib.. · « **Reply #126 on:** January 10, 2012, 04:46:10 AM »

1. "Leicester Code," Leonardo da Vinci (The Codex Leicester, Leonardo da Vinci)

$ 30.8 million in 1994, the auction Christies ($ 44,6 million in current prices *).

Notebook entries by Leonardo da Vinci, made during his life in Milan in 1506-1510, respectively. The manuscript consists of 18 sheets of paper covered on both sides and folded in such a way that together they formed a 72-page book. Leonardo notes written in a special way, his own "mirror" type - they can be read only by means of a mirror. Entries are devoted to various events, mused about the nature of which Leonardo: why the moon is shining, why and how the water flows in rivers, where are the fossils of which are minerals and so on. Notebook also contains a large number of mathematical calculations, diagrams and drawings. "Leicester" code was named after the Earl of Leicester, who bought the manuscript in 1717. In 1980, the book's heirs Lester bought the famous industrialist, collector and friend of the Soviet Armand Hammer, after which he served for a short period called the "Code Hammer» (Codex Hammer). After his death in 1994 the code was put up for auction, in which was acquired by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and he regularly exhibited in museums in the picture.

sahib.. · « **Reply #127 on:** January 10, 2012, 04:50:08 AM »

testing on phones during driving or else .may cause accidents why which almost 6000 people died every year

sahib.. · « **Reply #128 on:** January 10, 2012, 04:57:00 AM »

Chernobyl $200 Billion
On April 26, 1986, the world witnessed the costliest accident in history. The Chernobyl disaster has been called the biggest socio-economic catastrophe in peacetime history. 50% of the area of Ukraine is in some way contaminated. Over 200,000 people had to be evacuated and resettled while 1.7 million people were directly affected by the disaster. The death toll attributed to Chernobyl, including people who died from cancer years later, is estimated at 125,000. The total costs including cleanup, resettlement, and compensation to victims has been estimated to be roughly $200 Billion. The cost of a new steel shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear plant will cost $2 billion alone. The accident was officially attributed to power plant operators who violated plant procedures and were ignorant of the safety requirements needed.

sahib.. · « **Reply #129 on:** January 10, 2012, 05:07:02 AM »

Harry Turner (Garry Turner) from Britain could spread to the abdominal skin to see 15,8 This is due to a rare disease known as syndrome Elersa- Danlosa violation connective tissue, affecting the skin, ligaments and internal organs. Collagen, strengthens skin, and is responsible for its elasticity, damaged, which, among other things, is the weakening of the skin and joints razboltannost. In more severe cases, this can result in the destruction or rupture of blood vessels, leading to death.

sahib.. · « **Reply #130 on:** January 10, 2012, 05:22:53 AM »

American Jackie Bibby (Jackie Bibby) was able to hold in his mouth without assistance 10 gremuchih snake tails for a period of 10 seconds on the Day Guinness World Records on November 9, 2006

_noXiouS_ · « **Reply #131 on:** January 10, 2012, 10:48:27 AM »

where are the rest?

SonnenKinder · « **Reply #132 on:** January 10, 2012, 08:25:44 PM »

some more amazing facts

In 10th-century Burma, King Theinhko ate a farmer’s cucumbers without permission. The farmer killed the king and took the throne. 2.The U.S. Marine Corps is actually older than the United States itself, having been founded in 1775. 3.In the 1950s, Harper Lee moved to New York to become an author, and succeeded. Her 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won a Pulitzer Prize and is a classic. But aside from a few nonfiction magazine articles she’s published since, she’s refused to write anything else—including a foreword for her lone novel. 4. The epitaph of Alexander the Great is one of the most famous in history: “A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.” But in all likelihood, Alexander’s tomb does not contain Alexander himself. The emperor Ptolemy took Alexander’s body and brought it back to Alexandria, where it was on display for a long time. But the body was lost and its current whereabouts are unknown. 5.Sorry, guys. While females are the ones who carry the gene for Hemophilia, except in the rarest of cases, only males can actually have the disease which makes their blood unable to clot. 6.Before Briton Hadden and Henry Luce decided to call their new magazine Time, they were debating calling it either Chance or Destiny. 7.When Mom told you not to eat apple seeds, she had good reason. From peaches to cherries, many fruit seeds contain cyanogenetic glycosides, which turn into cyanide gas during digestion. In the last 50 years, at least nine people in Turkey have died of cyanide poisoning from gorging on apricots. 8.During a 1956 speech for his campaign of de-Stalinization, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was asked by an unseen audience member why, as an advisor to the dictator, he had never stopped Stalin from committing his atrocities. Khrushchev immediately lashed out, “Who said that?” The room grew quiet. Khrushchev repeated his query to more silence, waited a beat, and then said, “Well, now you understand why.” 9.Those few folks who have survived a jump from the Golden Gate Bridge report that it takes about four seconds to hit the water, which is plenty of time to re-think and regret the decision. 10.Amerigo Vespucci, for whom many historians believe America was named, was an Italian pickle merchant.

ƁΔƘΓΔ · « **Reply #133 on:** January 18, 2012, 03:42:20 PM »

Fascism wasn't the first name Mussolini wanted for the Italian political movement of the 1920s-40s. Corporatism was the original name.

_noXiouS_ · « **Reply #134 on:** January 27, 2012, 02:43:40 PM »

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

💕» ρяєєтι мαη∂ «💕 · « **Reply #135 on:** January 27, 2012, 02:46:35 PM »

do u know that ur heart stops beating when u sneezing

SonnenKinder · « **Reply #136 on:** January 31, 2012, 06:36:29 PM »

Before aspirin was produced, ailing patients chewed the bark of the white willow tree (from which aspirin is derived) to help alleviate fever and pain.

TheStig · « **Reply #137 on:** February 07, 2012, 06:02:27 PM »

Did you know?

It takes approximately seven years for a lobster to grow to be about half a kilogram.

sahib.. · « **Reply #138 on:** February 07, 2012, 08:08:58 PM »

wadda wdiya topic a ..ajj milya mainu te ahe

TheStig · « **Reply #139 on:** February 09, 2012, 05:38:11 PM »

Did you know?

Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.

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