Tahukah Anda/Did You Know?

grUdgE-frEak

The one place where a flag flies all day, never goes up or comes down, and does not get saluted, is the moon.

Earth is not round; it is slightly pear-shaped. The North Pole radius is 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.

The Sahara desert expands at about 1km per month.

Oceanography, the study of oceans, is a mixture of biology, physics, geology and chemistry.

Hurricanes, tornadoes and bigger bodies of water always go clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. This directional spinning has to do with the rotation of the earth and is called the Coriolis force.

All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise, except Venus. It is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a god.

One year on earth is 365.26 days long. One day is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds long. The extra day in a leap year was introduced to compensate for the discrepancy in the Georgian calendar.

Earth is slowing down - in a few million years there won't be a leap year.

guynextdoor

The Moon

The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometers (2,160 miles), which is 25% of Earth's diameter.

At full moon the earth is between the moon and the sun; at new moon the moon is between the sun and the earth.

The first photograph of the Moon was taken in 1840 by J.W. Draper using a 12 cm reflector with an exposure time of 20 minutes.

The Moslem calendar today is still based on the Lunar calendar, where the average month has 29.5 days.

Only about 59 percent of the Moon's surface is visible to us here on earth.

[ Last edited by  guynextdoor at 3-1-2007 01:03 AM ]

guynextdoor

Some Like It Hot



Chili pepper, (also spelled chile, or chilli) is the fruit that originates from the Americas. It was discovered in 1493 in the Caribbean by Columbus.


The most common species of chili peppers are: bell peppers, paprika, jalapeños, cayenne, tabasco, the hottest peppers such as habaneros and Scotch bonnets, rocoto peppers, and chiltepin. The shapes, color, taste and pungency of the species vary depending on the country of their origin.

Their pungency is caused by capsaicin and four related chemicals, collectively called capsaicinoids. The "heat" of chili peppers is measured in Scoville units.

guynextdoor

Laika, the Space Dog



The dog Laika, the first living creature to orbit the Earth who paved the way for humans in space was a stray dog found in the streets of Moscow.

Stray dogs were chosen for the experiment because the scientists believed they would be able to tolerate the extremities of space flight better than other dogs. Female dogs were used because of their temperament and the fact that they did not need to lift their leg to urinate.

The space dogs, whose weight did not exceed 6 kg and height 35 cm were prepared for space mission and adapted to the conditions in the pressurized space cabins by the Soviet Institute of Aviation Medicine. They were kept in gradually smaller cages for up to 15-20 days and were trained to eat a special high-nutrition gel that would be their food in space.

guynextdoor

The Pill Facts and Figures



The birth control pill was introduced to the public in the early 1960s. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved it for clinical use on May 9, 1960. Today female oral contraceptives, colloquially known as the Pill, are the most popular method of contraception, a quarter of women aged 16-49 rely on it.

Birth control pills are synthetic hormones (progestin and most often also estrogen) that prevent ovulation. The contraceptive pill, however, can be prescribed for reasons other than contraception, for example, menstrual disorders, hormonal regulation in infertility treatment, acne.

The Pill is usually estimated to be over 99% effective. However, that figure relates to correct and regular Pill use. Actual failure rates are estimated to run at around 6%.

chiKenliTeL

ok... tacang punya pasal ~~~ penat carik nieh ~~



Tahukah Anda ?

Tahukah anda bahwa jika anda berteriak terus menerus selama 8 tahun, 7 bulan dan 6 hari,tenaga yang anda keluarkan akan cukup untuk
memanaskan segelas kopi.

Jika anda kentut secara konsisten selama 6 tahun 9 bulan, anda akan menghasilkan gas yang cukup untuk menciptakan energi yang diperlukan dalam membuat bom atom.

Jangka masa orgasme seekor babi dapat mencapai 30 minit lamanya.

Membenturkan kepala ke tembok menghabiskan 150 kalori setiap jamnya.

Dari banyak spesies, hanya manusia dan lumba-lumba yang boleh melakukan seks sebagai sebuah kesenangan.

Semua beruang kutub kidal.


Seekor kecoa mampu bertahan hidup selama 9
hari tanpa kepala, sebelum mati karena kelaparan.
(Hii syeerem..)

Seekor kutu mampu melompat sejauh 350 kali panjang badannya. Kira- kira sama dengan seorang manusia melompat sejauh lapangan sepak bola.

Belalang sembah jantan tidak bisa membuahi betinanya selama kepalanya masih menempel pada tubuhnya. Sang betina harus memulai ritual
seks dengan memenggal kepala sang jantan.

Beberapa jenis singa mampu kawin sebanyak 50 kali dalam sehari.

Alat perasa pada kupu-kupu adalah kakinya.

Bintang laut tidak mempunyai otak.

chiKenliTeL

Gutenberg was not the first to invent the printing press~~

Johannes Gutenberg is often credited as the inventor of the printing press in 1454. But neither printing nor movable type was actually invented by Johannes Gutenberg, nor did he print the first book. The Chinese actually printed from movable type in 1040, but later discarding the method.

Even before printing books from movable type, the Chinese used wooden blocks to print Budhist writings by hand on scrolls in the 9th Century. While there are no surviving examples of the Chinese printing presses of the 11th Century, the oldest surving printed book on record is the Budhist Diamond-Sutra of 868 AD. Gutenberg was unaware of the Chinese printing methods.

In 1450, Gutenberg went into partnership with the wealthy Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer. In 1454, Gutenberg printed a Turkish calendar and the famous 42-line Bible, of which he printed some 180 copies. The next year he quarrelled with his partners, they won a lawsuit against him, and he lost control of his printing business, causing him financial ruin.

After his financial ruin, little is known of Gutenberg. Near the end of his life, the elector Adolph von Nassau took pity and made him a member of his court. He died in Mainz in 1468.

Although Gutenberg did not invent printing, his experiments made printing more practical. He used sand molds to cast his type and changed the woodcut presses to take printing of type pages. He did invent movable type for the Western world. Gutenberg's method of using type endured almost unchanged for five centuries. Today he is the most famous printer of all time.

Before Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press in 1454, there were only about 30,000 books throughout the whole of Europe, nearly all Bibles or biblical commentary. By 1500, there were more than 9 million books. Today there are more than a trillion books.

The Gutenberg Bible
It is believed that about 180 copies were printed. Significant parts of 48 copies still survive. The British Library has two complete copies of the Gutenberg Bible and a small but important fragment of a third copy. One copy (shown) was transferred in 1829 to the British Library with the library of King George III (1738-1820).
Picture © British Library Board

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cutemulan8

Is this your handphone number????

1)key-in the first 3 digit of your handphone number
   (not the 01x number)
   into the calculator
2) multiply by 80
3) add 1
4) multiply by 250
5) plus last four digit of phone number
6) plus last four digit of phone number again
7) minus 250
8) divide by 2 at last

Is it your handphone number????

AMAZING ISN'T IT !!!

cutemulan8

What's your type???

In some ways, every person's blood is the same. But, when analyzed under a microscope, distinct differences are visible. In the early 20th century, an Austrian scientist named Karl Landsteiner classified blood according to those differences. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievements.
Landsteiner observed two distinct chemical molecules present on the surface of the red blood cells. He labeled one molecule "A" and the other molecule "B." If the red blood cell had only "A" molecules on it, that blood was called type A. If the red blood cell had only "B" molecules on it, that blood was called type B. If the red blood cell had a mixture of both molecules, that blood was called type AB. If the red blood cell had neither molecule, that blood was called type O.

If two different blood types are mixed together, the blood cells may begin to clump together in the blood vessels, causing a potentially fatal situation. Therefore, it is important that blood types be matched before blood transfusions take place. In an emergency, type O blood can be given because it is most likely to be accepted by all blood types. However, there is still a risk involved.

A person with type A blood can donate blood to a person with type A or type AB. A person with type B blood can donate blood to a person with type B or type AB. A person with type AB blood can donate blood to a person with type AB only. A person with type O blood can donate to anyone.

A person with type A blood can receive blood from a person with type A or type O. A person with type B blood can receive blood from a person with type B or type O. A person with type AB blood can receive blood from anyone. A person with type O blood can receive blood from a person with type O.

Because of these patterns, a person with type O blood is said to be a universal donor. A person with type AB blood is said to be a universal receiver. In general, however, it is still best to mix blood of matching types and Rh factors.

cutemulan8

WHO INVENTED TOOTHBRUSH????

The toothbrush as we know it today was not invented until 1938. However, early forms of the toothbrush have been in existence since 3000 BC. Ancient civilizations used a "chew stick," which was a thin twig with a frayed end. These 'chew sticks' were rubbed against the teeth.

The bristle toothbrush, similar to the type used today, was not invented until 1498 in China. The bristles were actually the stiff, coarse hairs taken from the back of a hog's neck and attached to handles made of bone or bamboo.

Boar bristles were used until 1938, when nylon bristles were introduced by Dupont de Nemours. The first nylon toothbrush was called Doctor West's Miracle Toothbrush. Later, Americans were influenced by the disciplined hygiene habits of soldiers from World War II. They became increasingly concerned with the practice of good oral hygiene and quickly adopted the nylon toothbrush.

Some other interesting toothbrush facts:

The first mass-produced toothbrush was made by William Addis of Clerkenwald, England, around 1780.
The first American to patent a toothbrush was H. N. Wadsworth, (patent number 18,653,) on Nov. 7, 1857.
Mass production of toothbrushes began in America around 1885.
One of the first electric toothbrushes to hit the American market was in 1960. It was marketed by the Squibb company under the name Broxodent

cutemulan8

How much water does a camel's hump hold?
     
    None.
A camel's hump does not hold water at all - it actually stores fat. The camel uses it as nourishment when food is scarce. If a camel uses the fat inside the hump, the hump will become limp and droop down. With proper food and rest the hump will return to normal.

The hump is not used for water storage, but camels can go for long periods of time without water. They drink large amounts of water - up to 20 gallons at a time. This water is stored in the animal's bloodstream.

cutemulan8

Why do geese fly in a V?
     
    Energy conservation and visual assurance.
Why do geese fly in a V? Because it would be too hard to fly in an S! Just kidding. Scientists have determined that the V-shaped formation that geese use when migrating serves two important purposes:

First, it conserves their energy. Each bird flies slightly above the bird in front of him, resulting in a reduction of wind resistance. The birds take turns being in the front, falling back when they get tired. In this way, the geese can fly for a long time before they must stop for rest.

The second benefit to the V formation is that it is easy to keep track of every bird in the group. Fighter pilots often use this formation for the same reason.

cutemulan8

Roman Numerals

Roman numerals are expressed by letters of the alphabet:

I=1
V=5  
X=10  
L=50  
C=100  
D=500
M=1000

There are four basic principles for reading and writing Roman numerals:

1. A letter repeats its value that many times (XXX = 30, CC = 200, etc.). A letter can only be repeated three times.
2. If one or more letters are placed after another letter of greater value, add that amount.
VI = 6 (5 + 1 = 6)
LXX = 70 (50 + 10 + 10 = 70)
MCC = 1200 (1000 + 100 + 100 = 1200)
3. If a letter is placed before another letter of greater value, subtract that amount.
IV = 4 (5

Atomic_Omnikid

Multiplication
Finding the product of multiplicands of any length by small multipliers is accomplished using a set of rules. One works from right to left from digit to digit of the multiplicand, writing down the digits of the product. The rules use only addition, subtraction, doubling, and halving.

Here are the rules:

Multiplier   Rules
0 Zero times any number at all is zero.
1 Copy down the multiplicand unchanged.
2 Double each digit of the multiplicand.
3 First step: subtract from 10 and double, and add 5 if the number is odd. Middle steps: subtract from 9 and double, and add half the neighbor, plus 5 if the number is odd. Last step: take half the lefthand digit of the multiplicand and reduce by 2.

4 First step: subtract from 10, and add 5 if the number is odd. Middle steps: subtract from 9 and add half the neighbor, plus 5 if the number is odd. Last step: take half the lefthand digit of the multiplicand and reduce by 1.

5 Use half the neighbor, plus 5 if the number is odd.
6 Use the number plus half the neighbor, plus five if the number is odd.
7 Use double the number plus half the neighbor, plus five if the number is odd.
8 First step: subtract from 10 and double.
Middle steps: subtract from 9, double, and add the neighbor.
Last step: Reduce the lefthand digit of the multiplicand by 2.

9 First step: subtract from 10.
Middle steps: subtract from 9 and add the neighbor.
Last step: reduce the lefthand digit of the multiplicand by 1.

10 Use the neighbor.
11 Add the neighbor to the number.
12 Double the number and add the neighbor.

When the sum exceeds 10, write down the last digit, and carry the first digit. If you are taking half an odd number, use the integer quotient and ignore the remainder of 1.


Examples:

1. Multiply 901247 by 2.

0 + 7 * 2 = 14. Write down 4, carry 1.
1 + 4 * 2 = 9. Write down 9.
0 + 2 * 2 = 4. Write down 4.
0 + 1 * 2 = 2. Write down 2.
0 + 0 * 2 = 0. Write down 0.
0 + 9 * 2 = 18. Write down 8, carry 1.
1 + 0 * 2 = 1. Write down 1.

Answer: 901247 * 2 = 1802494.


2. Multiply 901247 by 3.

0 + (10 - 7) * 2 = 6. 6 + 5 = 11. Write down 1, carry 1.
1 + (9 - 4) * 2 = 11. 11 + [7/2] + 0 = 14. Write down 4, carry 1.
1 + (9 - 2) * 2 = 15. 15 + [4/2] + 0 = 17. Write down 7, carry 1.
1 + (9 - 1) * 2 = 17. 17 + [2/2] + 5 = 23. Write down 3, carry 2.
2 + (9 - 0) * 2 = 20. 20 + [1/2] + 0 = 20. Write down 0, carry 2.
2 + (9 - 9) * 2 = 2. 2 + [0/2] + 5 = 7. Write down 7.
[9/2] - 2 = 2. Write down 2.

Answer: 901247 * 3 = 2703741.

These rules allow one to dispense with memorizing multiplication tables, if that is desired. Even better, it gives a way to help memorize them, by allowing one to work out the answer by rule if one cannot remember it by rote.
Once the multiplication tables are memorized, using multipliers of two digits is learned. Finally, using multipliers of any length is learned by the "two-finger" method.



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Addition
The method advocated here involves the following principle: "Never count higher than eleven." If any running column total exceeds 11, subtract 11 and put a tick mark in that column. When you reach the bottom, write down the running total, and under it write the number of tick marks. Now add these two rows using the strange rule of adding the two numbers in any column and the neighbor tick number. Write down the last digit and carry the other digit, if any, working right-to-left.


Example

      3  6  8  9
         7' 5' 8'
      9' 6  6  7'  column
      1  0  6' 4   of
      6  4' 9' 8'  figures
      ----------
      8  1  1  3   running totals
      1  2  3  3   ticks
      ----------
   2 '1  6  7  6   sum

This technique works on arbitrarily long columns of figures, and the columns can be dealt with in any order desired, except at the very last step.


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Division and Square Roots
The methods for these operations are too long to discuss here, although less complicated than the traditional ones and more adapted for speed and mental calculation.


Checking
One aspect of calculation which is advocated throughout this book is the importance of checking the correctness of one's work. The method of Casting Out Nines to check a result is used. For more about casting out nines

Atomic_Omnikid

Why does 0.9999... = 1 ?
This answer is adapted from an entry in the sci.math Frequently Asked Questions file, which is Copyright (c) 1994 Hans de Vreught ([email protected]).
The first thing to realize about the system of notation that we use (decimal notation) is that things like the number 357.9 really mean "3*100 + 5*10 + 7*1 + 9/10". So whenever you write a number in decimal notation and it has more than one digit, you're really implying a sum.

So in modern mathematics, the string of symbols 0.9999... = 1 is understood to mean "the infinite sum 9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000 + ...". This in turn is shorthand for "the limit of the sequence of numbers

    9/10,
    9/10 + 9/100,
    9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000,
    ...."


One can show that this limit is 9/10 + 9/100 + 9/1000 ... using Analysis, and a proof really isn't all that hard (we all believe it intuitively anyway); a reference can be found in any of the Analysis texts referenced at the end of this message. Then all we have left to do is show that this sum really does equal 1:

   Proof: 0.9999... =     Sum         9/10^n
                     (n=1 -> Infinity)

                    =  lim               sum      9/10^n
                     (m -> Infinity) (n=1 -> m)

                    =  lim           .9(1-10^-(m+1))/(1-1/10)
                     (m -> Infinity)

                    =  lim           .9(1-10^-(m+1))/(9/10)
                     (m -> Infinity)

                    = .9/(9/10)
                     
                    = 1


Not formal enough? In that case you need to go back to the construction of the number system. After you have constructed the reals (Cauchy sequences are well suited for this case, see [Shapiro75]), you can indeed verify that the preceding proof correctly shows

lim_(m --> oo) sum_(n = 1)^m (9)/(10^n) = 1
   0.9999... = 1

   Thus     x = 0.9999...  
          10x = 9.9999...
      10x - x = 9.9999... - 0.9999...
           9x = 9
            x = 1.


Another informal argument is to notice that all periodic numbers such as 0.9999... = 9/9 = 1 are equal to the digits in the period divided by as many nines as there are in the period. Applying the same argument to 0.46464646... gives us = 46/99.

Atomic_Omnikid

Usually n factorial is defined in the following way:

n! = 1*2*3*...*n
But this definition does not give a value for 0 factorial, so a natural question is: what is the value here of 0! ?

A first way to see that 0! = 1 is by working backward. We know that:

                1! = 1
     2! = 1!*2
                2! = 2
     3! = 2!*3
                3! = 6
     4! = 3!*4
                4! = 24
            

We can turn this around:
                4! = 24
     3! = 4!/4
                3! = 6
     2! = 3!/3
                2! = 2
     1! = 2!/2
                1! = 1
     0! = 1!/1
                0! = 1


In this way a reasonable value for 0! can be found.
How can we fit 0! = 1 into a definition for n! ? Let's rewrite the usual definition with recurrence:

      1! = 1
      n! = n*(n-1)! for n > 1
      

Now it is simple to change the definition to include 0! :
      0! = 1
      n! = n*(n-1)! for n > 0
      

Why is it important to compute 0! ?
An important application of factorials is the computation of number combinations:

               n!
   C(n,k) = --------
            k!(n-k)!
         

C(n,k) is the number of combinations you can make of k objects out of a given set of n objects. We see that C(n,0) and C(n,n) should be equal to 1, but they require that 0! be used.
                      n!
   C(n,0) = C(n,n) = ----
                     n!0!


So 0! = 1 neatly fits what we expect C(n,0) and C(n,n) to be.
Can factorials also be computed for non-integer numbers? Yes, there is a famous function, the gamma function G(z), which extends factorials to real and even complex numbers. The definition of this function, however, is not simple:

          inf.
   G(z) = INT x^(z-1) e^(-x) dx
           0


Note that the extension of n! by G(z) is not what you might think: when n is a natural number, then G(n) = (n-1)!
The gamma function is undefined for zero and negative integers, from which we can conclude that factorials of negative integers do not exist.

Atomic_Omnikid

According to some Calculus textbooks, 0^0 is an "indeterminate form." What mathematicians mean by "indeterminate form" is that in some cases we think about it as having one value, and in other cases we think about it as having another.

When evaluating a limit of the form 0^0, you need to know that limits of that form are "indeterminate forms," and that you need to use a special technique such as L'Hopital's rule to evaluate them. For instance, when evaluating the limit Sin[x]^x (which is 1 as x goes to 0), we say it is equal to x^x (since Sin[x] and x go to 0 at the same rate, i.e. limit as x->0 of Sin[x]/x is 1). Then we can see from the graph of x^x that its limit is 1.

Other than the times when we want it to be indeterminate, 0^0 = 1 seems to be the most useful choice for 0^0 . This convention allows us to extend definitions in different areas of mathematics that would otherwise require treating 0 as a special case. Notice that 0^0 is a discontinuity of the function f(x,y) = x^y, because no matter what number you assign to 0^0, you can't make x^y continuous at (0,0), since the limit along the line x=0 is 0, and the limit along the line y=0 is 1.

This means that depending on the context where 0^0 occurs, you might wish to substitute it with 1, indeterminate or undefined/nonexistent.

Some people feel that giving a value to a function with an essential discontinuity at a point, such as x^y at (0,0), is an inelegant patch and should not be done. Others point out correctly that in mathematics, usefulness and consistency are very important, and that under these parameters 0^0 = 1 is the natural choice.

The following is a list of reasons why 0^0 should be 1.


Rotando & Korn show that if f and g are real functions that vanish at the origin and are analytic at 0 (infinitely differentiable is not sufficient), then f(x)^g(x) approaches 1 as x approaches 0 from the right.
From Concrete Mathematics p.162 (R. Graham, D. Knuth, O. Patashnik):


Some textbooks leave the quantity 0^0 undefined, because the functions 0^x and x^0 have different limiting values when x decreases to 0. But this is a mistake. We must define x^0=1 for all x , if the binomial theorem is to be valid when x=0 , y=0 , and/or x=-y . The theorem is too important to be arbitrarily restricted! By contrast, the function 0^x is quite unimportant.
Published by Addison-Wesley, 2nd printing Dec, 1988.


As a rule of thumb, one can say that 0^0 = 1 , but 0.0^(0.0) is undefined, meaning that when approaching from a different direction there is no clearly predetermined value to assign to 0.0^(0.0) ; but Kahan has argued that 0.0^(0.0) should be 1, because if f(x), g(x) --> 0 as x approaches some limit, and f(x) and g(x) are analytic functions, then f(x)^g(x) --> 1 .
The discussion of 0^0 is very old. Euler argues for 0^0 = 1 since a^0 = 1 for a not equal to 0 . The controversy raged throughout the nineteenth century, but was mainly conducted in the pages of the lesser journals: Grunert's Archiv and Schlomilch's Zeitshrift. Consensus has recently been built around setting the value of 0^0 = 1 .

Atomic_Omnikid

Because there's just no sensible way to define it.
For example, we could say that 1/0 = 5. But there's a rule in arithmetic that a(b/a) = b, and if 1/0 = 5, 0(1/0) = 0*5 = 0 doesn't work, so you could never use the rule. If you changed every rule to specifically say that it doesn't work for zero in the denominator, what's the point of making 1/0 = 5 in the first place? You can't use any rules on it.

But maybe you're thinking of saying that 1/0 = infinity. Well then, what's "infinity"? How does it work in all the other equations?

Does infinity - infinity = 0?
Does 1 + infinity = infinity?

If so, the associative rule doesn't work, since (a+b)+c = a+(b+c) will not always work:

1 + (infinity - infinity) = 1 + 0 = 1, but
(1 + infinity) - infinity = infinity - infinity = 0.

You can try to make up a good set of rules, but it always leads to nonsense, so to avoid all the trouble we just say that it doesn't make sense to divide by zero.

What happens if you add apples to oranges? It just doesn't make sense, so the easiest thing is just to say that it doesn't make sense, or, as a mathematician would say, "it is undefined."

Maybe that's the best way to look at it. When, in mathematics, you see a statement like "operation XYZ is undefined", you should translate it in your head to "operation XYZ doesn't make sense."

chiKenliTeL

Little known 'Did you know' facts - manyak saya dapat... manyak la tacang ye?? toce~

Weird facts that you would rather not know....



Did you know?...It is impossible to lick your elbow.

Did you know?...Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

Did you know?...Coca-Cola was originally contain cocaine.

Did you know?...23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Did you know?...In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.

Did you know?...If the government has no knowledge of aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?

Did you know?...Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.[

Did you know?...More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

Did you know?...The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

Did you know?...The Eiffel Tower in Paris weighs over 1000 elephants.

Did you know?...there are actually two types of humans? The slightly larger and less intelligent kind, males, have protruding external genitalia called "penises" that are used for making important life decisions. Meanwhile, females have these nifty things called "vaginas" that no one understands yet, especially males

Did you know?... In 1879, a mail service in Belgium employed 37 cats to carry bundles of letters to villages around the town of Liege, this experiment was shorted-lived as the cats proved thoroughly undisciplined. Just plain weird...even by my standards.

Did you know?... The greatest recorded number of children that have been born by one mother is 69! The poor lass gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and a measly 4 sets of quadruplets. Even in the days before IVF!

Did you know?...Males, on average, think about sex every 7 seconds.

Did you know?... Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus

Did you know?...13% of Americans actually believe that some parts of the moon are made of cheese...yummy

Did you know?...The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

Did you know?...If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in celcius degrees... How do they know that?

Did you know?...Fish that live more than 800 meters below the ocean surface don't have eyes. Eeewwwwww

Did you know?...Hydrogen is an explosive gas. Oxygen supports combustion. Yet when these are combined it is water which is used to put out fires.

Did you know?...Walt Disney's autograph bears no resemblance to the famous Disney logo he was also impotent. Bwahahahahahaha!

Did you know?...The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways-

1. Leeuwaarden
2. Leewaarden
3. Leewarden
4. Leuwarden
5. leuwaardenn
6. Leuuwarrden......
224. Bradford

Did you know?...Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave. Go on, try it then

Did you know?...The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.

Did you know?...Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Did you know?...Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.
# Spades - King David
# Hearts - Charlemagne
# Clubs - Alexander the Great
# Diamonds - Julius Caesar

Did you know?...In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.

Did you know?...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 recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

Did you know?...Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Did you know?...The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

Did you know?...101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are present and don't die during the movie.

Did you know?...To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.

Did you know?...You're most likely to win the UK's Lotto if you buy your ticket on a saturday rather than a wednesday. Because you are more likey to die before the number draw than win.

Did you know?... In York, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays)

Did you know?...On average, 90% Dutch teenagers can speak fluent English whereas only 80% American teenagers can speak fluent English. (Just incase you didnt know, English is not the first langauge of The Netherlands.)

Did you know?...In Texas, a recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed. Only in Texas....

Did you know?...No piece of square dry paper can be folded in half more than 7 times

Did you know?...The people who make school kitchens, also make electric chairs.

Did you know?... The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

Did you know?..."Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

Did you know?...The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

Did you know?...1 in every 200 people are a psychopath and they look just like everyone else......

Did you know?...An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

Did you know?... All the chemicals in the human body have a combined value of approximately

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Did you know?...Chocolate is healthy!
Chocolate is a vegetable; Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar cane or sugar BEETS.Both of them are plants, in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.
To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So chocolate bars are a health food. Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

Did you know?... During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur," a small red car can be seen in the distance.

Did you know?...Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.Another interesting fact about Donald Duck - never wore pants but always wore a towel when he came out of the shower!

Did you know?...Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

Did you know?... The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.

Did you know?...The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.

Did you know?... The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Did you know?...By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand.

Did you know?...Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

Did you know?... Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Did you know?...An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than three steps backwards while dancing!

Did you know?...The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.

Did you know?... The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.

Did you know?...If you removed the stomach, the spleen, 75% of the liver, 80% of the intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from the pelvic and groin area, the human body would still be able to survive.

Did you know?...In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.

Did you know?... On average,100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.

Did you know?...Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.

Did you know?...The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

Did you know?... The electric chair was invented by a dentist. (coincidence? )

Did you know?...In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Did you know?...Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves.

Did you know?... American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

Did you know?... Sticking your two middle fingers up dates back from the middles ages. When archers were caught they had their two middle fingers cut of so that they couldn't shoot any more arrows. So when an archer was shooting people he would stick his fingers up to say "look I still have them, "hahaha".

Did you know?... A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.

Did you know?...December is the most popular time for Conception. It's a great way to keep warm through the chilly festive season.

Did you know?...Over 75% of people who read this page will try to lick their elbow.

Did you know?...You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you cant pick your friends nose.

Did you know?...Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

Did you know?...This is why I hate Barbie. If she was of real life size, this is what her portions would be-

Height: 7ft 2 inches (average woman: 5ft 4in)
Neck: Twice the size of a normal human female which would make it very unable to support the weight of her head.
Boobs: 39 inches (or approximately an FF cup: average woman 36B)
Waist: 18 inches (which is only possible if you remove 2 ribs and carry both kidneys around in a bag)
Hips: 33 inches
Shoe Size: 5
Also Ken and Barbie are brother and sister!

Did you know?...Modern records do not compare with that of St Simeon the younger (C AD 521-97) called stylites a monk who spent the final 45 years of his life living at the top of a stone pillar on the hill of wonders near Antioch in Syria! What the *****?.....

Did you know?...14% of all facts and statisticts are made up and 27% of people know that fact.

Did you know?...Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Did you know?...Eskimos have over 15 words for the english word of 'Snow'

Did you know?...Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.... each

Did you know?...Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

Did you know?...Contray to popular belief, the British flag is not called "The Union Jack" its actually called "The Union Flag". Its only called the Union Jack when out at sea on navy ships

Did you know?... You are most likely to get murdered at Christmas time due to more alcohol being drunk. Merry Christmas.

Did you know?...If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

Did you know?... TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.

Did you know?...On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament buildings is an American flag.

Did you know?... Almonds are a member of the peach family.

Did you know?... Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

Did you know?...The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Did you know?...Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first U.S. president whose name contains all the letters from the word 'criminal'. The second was William Jefferson Clinton.