amazing facts

[sweetoo]

(amazing) Don't miss the last one!



Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

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

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

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

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the

toughest tongue twister in the English language.



If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history.

Spades - King David

Clubs - Alexander the Great,

Hearts - Charlemagne

Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

(111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321)

If a statue of a person in the park 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 causes.

What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?
Ans. - All invented by women.

Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?
Ans. - Honey

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

A snail can sleep for three years.

All polar bears are left handed.

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

Butterflies taste with their feet.

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

[geno]

gosh!! I did !!! :lol: :lol:

[Raghu]

hey this cool :lol: :lol:

[Cindy]

:banghead: :banghead: ME TOO!!!!! :banghead: :banghead:

This i am gonna forward to all my contacts...good one Seeto!

[Surya]

////Most lipstick contains fish scales.////
Now all the vegetarian women I know are going to flip out!! :lol:

Nice thread.

[blahblah]

Applause!Applause!

Haven't seen another thread so interesting.But how are we to take it forward?Can't find anything amazing. :cry: :cry:

[Querida]

there is another set of these amazing facts out..i get it all the time in my forwards from friends...i will try to get my hands on it...thanx sweetoo for the interesting facts! :D

[Querida]

i just got inspired by one of the entries in sweetoo's post actually Shakespeare invented around 1700 of the words in the english language...here is just a taste of the influence this great playwright had upon our word usage:

alligator anchovies bandit
bed-room bump critic
dawn dew-drop employer
excitement eyeball fair play
farm-house football fortune-teller
glow horn-book lady-bird
love-letter luggage manager
mimic moonbeam mountaineer
partner puppy-dog radience
schoolboy shooting star shudder
watch-dog worm hole zany

[Querida]

hey i found that forward...

Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters
in alphabetical order.

"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!

One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue!

The average person laughs 10 times a day!

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain

Slugs have 4 noses.

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

You're born with 300 bones, but by the time you become an adult, you only have 206.

Some worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food!

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!

It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old!

The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds

On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.

More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words.

More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food.

Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.

The placement of a donkey's eyes in its heads enables it to see all four feet at all times!

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.

More than 1,000 different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa

A kiss lasting one minute can burn more than 25 calories.

Buckingham Palace in England has over six hundred rooms.

[RR]

Interesting.


"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

How about 'Rhythms'?

[RR]

(cut&pasted from another sweetoo thread.)

Posted: 28 Jan 2005 11:43 pm Post subject: amazing....

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>Here Are Some Amazing Facts
>
>* Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a person from producing tears
>
>* Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same
>time.
>* Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own
>name.
>* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
>* The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
>* To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow
>then it is ripe.
>* Canadians can send letters with personalised postage stamps showing their
>own photos on each stamp.
>* Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to
>eight weeks old.
>* It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
>* Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants
>watered with cold water.
>* Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear
>by 700 times.
>* Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
>* Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called
>phosphenes.
>* Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never
>stop growing.
>* Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
>* Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the
>gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
>* At 40° Centigrade a person loses about 14.4 calories per hour by
>breathing.
>* There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt every
>year.
>* Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk
>right foot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot, left
>foot ....
>* Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
>* The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of
>nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
>* In most watch advertisments the time displayed on the watch is 10:10
>because then the arms frame the brand of the watch and make it look like its
>smiling.
>* The color blue can have a calming affect on people. Depending upon the
>shade, the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing chemicals to calm the body
>* Leonardo da Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other
>simultaneously.
>* Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru (Hear
>no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
>* The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head
>are the rabbit and parrot.
>* The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is
>uncopyrightable.
>* Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
>reaches 2-6 years of age.
>* It is impossible to lick your elbow.
>* The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they
>start.
>* Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the
>wire.
>* All U. S. Presidents have worn glasses, some of them just didn't like to
>be seen wearing them in public.
>* No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and
>purple.
>* Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before they can be eaten
>* If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would
>never end because of the rate of reproduction.
>* The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. Approximately 23,000 employees
> both military and civilian. While in the building, they tell time by 4,200
>clocks, drink from 691 water fountains, utilize 284 rest rooms, consume 4
>500 cups of coffee, 1,700 pints of milk and 6,800 soft drinks prepared or
>served by a restaurant staff of 230 persons Over 200,000 telephone calls are
>made daily through phones connected by 100,000 miles of telephone cable.
>
>
_________________
urs only sweetooo.....

....ZINDA REHTI HAIN MOHABBATEIN....

[blahblah]

[quote="RR"]
>* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.


Nothing new.It is the same with all species. :evil: :twisted: :D

[Roshan]

Interesting stuff really !! :D

[Surya]

blah blah!
Sad and scary but true. :lol:

[Querida]

The average person laughs 10 times a day!
why?
because of wise guy comments such yours blah blah! :P :roll: :D

[Surya]

The world is gifted with wise-guys like Blah Blah. :D

[NOV]

Lessons in English

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes; but the plural of ox became oxen not oxes. One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be meese. You may
find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house
is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural
of pan be called pen? If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet? If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be hose, and the plural of cat is cats, not cose. We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the
feminine, she, shis and shim.

Some other reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.

Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind! For example ... If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England.

We take English for granted.
But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work
slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from
Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't
groce and hammers don't ham?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of
them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes, I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.

In what other language do people recite at a play and play at a
recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on.

If Dad is Pop, how's come Mom isn't Mop?

[nirosha sen]

:rotfl: Boy, that is certainly a conundrum I grapple with as volunteer English teacher, Pa!! More so, considering we speak English at home!! Most of my Tamil school children are just way too perplexed when I try to explain my way through their bewilderment!!

So, now I play smart. I keep telling them, "where English is concerned, there are always exception to the rule"!! Just to get them off my back, when they try to rationalise the very rules I lay down as per my little grammar book!!!! :lol:

[Bad Boy]

[quote=RR]
>* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.


Nothing new.It is the same with all species. :evil: :twisted: :D
Some not only bite, even worse: They kill you and eat you up: black widow - Latrodectus mactans.

Well, did you know that there is a suspission regarding shakespear? It is said that he is not the author of his books but his employer's wife?

[pavalamani pragasam]

A chemical treatise on woman:
Chemical symbol: Wo
Atomic weight: Approximately 120
Found: Where man is present
Physical properties: Can never boil, but may freeze at any time. Melts when treated properly. Very bitter if not used well. Very active. Possesses an affinity for gold, silver and precious metals. Violent when left alone. Able to absorb great quantities of exotic food. Turns slightly green when placed beside a better looking specimen. Ages rapidly.
Uses: Highly ornamental. Catalyses disintegration of wealth. Most powerful income-reducing agent known.
Caution: Highly explosive in inexperienced hands.

[Bad Boy]

A chemical treatise on woman:
Chemical symbol: Wo
Atomic weight: Approximately 120
Found: Where man is present
Physical properties: Can never boil, but may freeze at any time. Melts when treated properly. Very bitter if not used well. Very active. Possesses an affinity for gold, silver and precious metals. Violent when left alone. Able to absorb great quantities of exotic food. Turns slightly green when placed beside a better looking specimen. Ages rapidly.
Uses: Highly ornamental. Catalyses disintegration of wealth. Most powerful income-reducing agent known.
Caution: Highly explosive in inexperienced hands.

PP, :thumbsup:
but they are not violent they are furies when left alone. And they are brilliant at giving you a knife if you ask for a fork - the worst case for me.

[Querida]

[quote=RR]
>* Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.


Nothing new.It is the same with all species. :evil: :twisted: :D
Some not only bite, even worse: They kill you and eat you up: black widow - Latrodectus mactans.

Well, did you know that there is a suspission regarding shakespear? It is said that he is not the author of his books but his employer's wife?

hmmm have you missed the praying mantis?
anyways yes there is that suspicion about Shak. cause many of his plays were actually written down after he died by his fellow actors and editors...such as the witch scene in Macbeth (boil,boil,toil and trouble) was actually put in by his editor Thomas Middleton after Shak's death from Middleton's unpopular play "the witch' where he included many of the prayers done at black masses at the time...

[scorpio]

Chess was invented in India.

Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus are studies which originated in India.

The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

India has the most post offices in the world !

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people !.

The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.

Proud to be Indian :thumbsup:

[pavalamani pragasam]

The human body is a spectacular, awesome, complex organization of trillions of cells arranged in various combinations to form different kinds of tissue like bone, blood and muscle. An organization which with almost no help from us, silently, efficiently and ceaselessly looks after itself from the moment we are born.
For example, every 15-40 days, it replaces the outermost layer of skin -all of 68 meters of it. Thousands of wounds and sores heal themselves and billions of bacteria- every square inch of our body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it- live on and inside us, mostly harmlessly because of the body’s magnificent, tireless 24*7 immune system.

[Raghu]

The human body is a spectacular, awesome, complex organization of trillions of cells arranged in various combinations to form different kinds of tissue like bone, blood and muscle. An organization which with almost no help from us, silently, efficiently and ceaselessly looks after itself from the moment we are born.
For example, every 15-40 days, it replaces the outermost layer of skin -all of 68 meters of it. Thousands of wounds and sores heal themselves and billions of bacteria- every square inch of our body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it- live on and inside us, mostly harmlessly because of the body’s magnificent, tireless 24*7 immune system.


and what is more Spectacular than the Ultimate truth(GOD) who has created all of this? :D

[Raghu]

Here is another fascinating fact

Legendary Sensational Singer Padmashree Dr.SPB has recorded the most number of songs in the world, and his name is in the Guinness books of record


:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :clap: :clap: :clap: :D

[a.ratchasi]

Madam PP, I happened to find a chem treatise on man.8)

New Element: MAN

Symbol: XY

Atomic Weight: 180+/-100

Physical Properties: Solid at room temperature but gets bent out of shape. Fairly dense and sometimes flaky. Difficult to find a pure sample. Due to rust, aging samples are unable to conduct electricity as easily as young fresh samples.

Chemical Properties: Attempts to bond with Wo any chance it can get. Also, tends to form strong bonds with itself. Becomes explosive when mixed with Kd (element Kid), for prolonged period of time. Pretty basic. Neutralize by saturating with alcohol.

Caution: In the absence of Wo, this element rapidly decomposes and begins to smell. :lol: :lol:

[NOV]

Sigh... Yin and Yang....



ELEMENT: Woman

SYMBOL: Wm

DISCOVERER: Adam

ATOMIC MASS: Accepted as 53.8kg (but known to vary between 40kg and 200kg)

OCCURANCE: Copious quantities in all urban areas

HALF-LIFE: Deteriorates after about 25 years, sometimes rapidly losing shape and lustre

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES*

Surface is usually covered with a painted film
Boils at nothing, freezes without known reason
Melts if given special treatment
Bitter if used incorrectly
Found in various states ranging from virgin metal to common ore
Warms to pressure applied to correct points

REACTIVE PROPERTIES*

Has a great affinity for gold, silver, and a range of precious stones
Absorbs great quantities of expensive substances
Can explode spontaneously without prior warning and for no known reason
Stable in liquids, but activity greatly increases with saturation in alcohol
The most powerful money reducing agent known to man

USES*

Highly ornamental, especially in sports cars
May be a great aid in relaxation
Can be an effective cleaning agent

COLOUR*

Pure specimen turns rosy pink when discovered in natural state
Turns green when placed beside a better specimen

HANDLING*

Highly dangerous except when in experienced hands
Illegal to posses more than one, although several can be maintained at different locations as long as the specimens do not come into contact with each other

[Raghu]

Nov,

Pineetengha ponga, dhool :thumbsup: :clap: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Roshan]

Caution: In the absence of Wo, this element rapidly decomposes and begins to smell.

:lol: :thumbsup:


NOV,

Your 'joke' is a repeat here at the hub. Please find something new :P

[Cindy]

How smart is your right foot?

This will boggle your mind. And, you will keep trying at least 50 more
times to see if you can outsmart your foot, but you can't.

While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor and make
clockwise circles.

Now, while doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.

Your foot will change direction.

[NOV]

NOV,
Your 'joke' is a repeat here at the hub. Please find something new :P
Have you heard of "gracious defeat?" :poke:

[Cindy]

Its truly strange...just do it n u'll find the
results..........unbelievable:

Here is something really strange:

Did you know that a flight number from one of the planes that hit one of the two WTC towers on 9/11 was Q33N.

In Notepad, WordPad or MS Word, type in that flight number i.e. Q33N.
- increase the font size to 72:
- change the font to Wingdings ...... u will be amazed by the
findings!!!

It itself tells the story of destruction of twin tower !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IS IT A COINCIDENCE.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OR WHAT? ?

[shakthi]

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.



I think the most common name now is "Lee" (chinese surname) not Mohammed anymore

[a.ratchasi]

NOV,
Your 'joke' is a repeat here at the hub. Please find something new :P
Have you heard of "gracious defeat?" :poke:

Roshan, NOV is trying his best to use the phrase he picked up from some prolific author!

He tried the same in the Awards thread.

Sorry, NOV, (again) no effect! :lol:

[Roshan]

Hey Cindy !!! That's amazing !!! :shock:

I'm wondering as to how it could be possible :roll: are you sure about the flight number?




Roshan, NOV is trying his best to use the phrase he picked up from some prolific author!


That's why he was honoured with the "Dharmi" award - that too by a male hubber :P :lol:

I can hear NOV saying 'athu ennudaiyathuthaan ennudaiyathu thaan' !! :lol:

[Cygnus]

Cindy and Roshan!

The wingding thing: Interesting, but probably a hoax!

Source:
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/q33ny.html

[Roshan]

Cygnus,

Thanks for the link . I had my doubts anyway regarding the flight number and that's why I asked Cindy.

[pavalamani pragasam]

Has the "Quotes" thread been merged with this? :?
Money will buy a pretty dog but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
We can lead the animal to the pond but cant make it drink.
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three R’s: Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

[scorpio]

PP Ma'm,

Quotes thread is in the second page...
:)

One 'extraordinary' hubber had spent all his time digging out old threads and posting his views and hence active, regular threads like 'Quotes' have vanished to the second page !

[NM]

V. Irai Anbu, The Hindu > Metro Plus Madurai, Monday, Oct 04, 2004

Zero is not to be conceived as a negative factor, writes V. IRAI ANBU.

Mocking at somebody's capability or intelligence, we at times call some one a "big zero". What significance does zero bear? We need to examine in detail. Discovery of zero is considered a pioneering step in the field
of mathematics.

Cartoonist R.K. Lakshman used to say: "We Indians have invented
`Nothing''. The statement, as it turns out, is important both
metaphorically and figuratively.

In mathematics, zero is a place holder in computation. It is a cardinal number associated with an empty set. It is a divider between the positive and the negative numbers. It is the power index which converts any number into unity. It is an identity element in respect to the addition of real numbers. And, it is the number which cannot be a divisor.

Crucial in democracy

In economics, zero based budgeting is advocated. In demography zero growth rate is ideal. In democracy zero hour is crucial. In Physics, absolute zero is significant. In investigations, zeroing on the culprit is crucial.

Zero is not to be conceived as a negative factor. It can be positive.
As Thich Nhat Hanh says, "If you have a debt to pay, it is negative. But when you pay it back, your balance returns to zero. That is wonderful because you are free."

Even when the chronological order of the years was devised, after the completion of B.C., zero was omitted to be included and hence one year has been added to the actual number to be denoted.

Spiritual insight

It is to be remembered that Indians discovered zero not out of accident but due to spiritual insight.

To attain nothingness is the ultimate objective in spirituality.
Chandogya Upanishad reveals the mystery of nothingness.
`Bring me a banyan fruit,' Aruni said, and his son brought him one. `Cut it into two,' Aruni said and his son cut it into two.
`What do you see,' Aruni asked.
`I see some very small seeds,' his son replied.
`Take one of the seeds and cut it into two,' Aruni said and his son cut a seed into two.
`What do you see,' Aruni asked.
`Nothing at all,' his son replied.
Aruni said, `within that seed is the essence, which makes the entire seed to grow. Yet it cannot be seen.'

Meditation is zeroing on thought process. Dhyana is the attainment of `no-thought'. All great discoveries arose from the "no thought mind."

Physical manifestation

Emptiness is the physical manifestation of zero. Tao says, the room is useful not because of the walls but because of the emptiness within the circumference. Unless one becomes empty of his preconceived notions, one cannot learn any thing new. People feel happy to remain full even if they are stuffed with garbage. Buddha said, `Form is emptiness and emptiness is form'. There are seven kinds of emptiness, starting from the emptiness of mutuality to the highest emptiness of ultimate reality.

Lankavatara Sutra claims `when perfect wisdom is realized, the mind is empty of all conceptions and notions'. The Indian tradition trusts `learning zero' as the final step in the education process.

For them, to know existence is knowledge and to know the non-existence of existence is wisdom. West talks about silence as the absence of words and East names it as the absence of thought. Tilopa wants us to become the hollow bamboos to allow the divine to pass through us.

J. Krishnamurthi says, `When you listen to sound, the very listening is the silence, silence and sound are not separate'. Love is nothing but the emotional experiencing of zero. It is a sudden collapse of a section of an individual's ego and boundaries and permitting one to merge one's identity with that of another.

Death is considered as the zero point of life. It is actually the
pinnacle of life. Passed away does not mean gone. If one practices the art of looking deeply into a drop of water, one would see the whole ocean in it and life will be full of music, dance and celebration. This is what zero teaches us, as the final lesson.

[mandangi]

A snail can sleep for three years.
In sleep there is no chance of taking food. Living 3 years without food!!!!!!

[Querida]

this is not so much fact but it still is amazing ....well to those who haven't tried it before, check it out:

http://www.webshots.com/sp/card_trick/

[NOV]

Querida - the trick is only amazing until you realise the trick played on you.
I wont tell you yet what is the trick, so that you can find iyt out yourself. Others are also invited to discover the truth. But if you already know the trick, pls hold your silence. :D

[a.ratchasi]

NOV, I know how it works!!
Took me about 5 attempts to figure that out.

:evil:

[Roshan]

I did figure it out just in 2 attempts !!

[hehehewalrus]

i got this site in 1999. Completely fooled. Then I chose one card and my friend chose another. Both got fooled. You figure out the rest :D

[NOV]

Actual News Stories
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction!


A man hit by a car in New York in 1977 got up uninjured,
but lay back down in front of the car when a bystander told
him to pretend he was hurt so he could collect insurance
money. The car rolled forward and crushed him to death.


In 1983, a Mrs. Carson of Lake Kushaqua, N.Y., was laid out in
her coffin, presumed dead of heart disease. As mourners watched,
she suddenly sat up. Her daughter dropped dead of fright.


A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's
car into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed
to break a window, climb out and swim to shore --
where a tree blew over and killed him.


Mike Stewart, 31, of Dallas was filming a movie in 1983
on the dangers of low-level bridges when the truck he was
standing on passed under a low-level bridge -- killing him.


Walter Hallas, a 26-year-old store clerk in Leeds, England,
was so afraid of dentists that in 1979 he asked a fellow worker
to try to cure his toothache by punching him in the jaw. The
punch caused Hallas to fall down, hitting his head, and he
died of a fractured skull.


Depressed since he could not find a job, 42-year-old Romolo
Ribolla sat in his kitchen near Pisa, Italy, with a gun in
his hand threatening to kill himself in 1981. His wife
pleaded for him not to do it, and after about an hour he
burst into tears and threw the gun to the floor. It went
off and killed his wife.


Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a
thief fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot
wall, dropped down and found himself in the city prison.


Two West German motorists had an all-too-literal head-on
collision in heavy fog near the small town of Guetersloh.
Each was guiding his car at a snail's pace near the center of
the road. At the moment of impact their heads were both out of
the windows when they smacked together. Both men were hospitalized with severe head injuries. Their cars weren't scratched.


Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's
incessant nagging by giving her a good scare, Hungarian
Jake Fen built an elaborate harness to make it look as
if he had hanged himself. When his wife came home and
saw him she fainted. Hearing a disturbance a neighbor
came over and, finding what she thought were two corpses,
seized the opportunity to loot the place. As she was
leaving the room, her arms laden, the outraged and
suspended Mr. Fen kicked her stoutly in the backside.
This so surprised the lady that she dropped dead of a
heart attack. Happily, Mr. Fen was acquitted of
manslaughter and he and his wife were reconciled.

[Querida]

Querida - the trick is only amazing until you realise the trick played on you.
I wont tell you yet what is the trick, so that you can find iyt out yourself. Others are also invited to discover the truth. But if you already know the trick, pls hold your silence. :D

NOV-san how nice of you to share the secret :D ...i already knew...that's why i said it was amazing if you hadn't tried it before...but everyone else is welcome to try...and congrats to all those who already know...who cares how many attempts it took a.ratchasi, the accomplishment of understanding the trick is something no one can take away...Roshan and Hehehewalrus good stuff! :D


A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's
car into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed
to break a window, climb out and swim to shore --
where a tree blew over and killed him.

so ironic it kills! :twisted:

[a.ratchasi]

Q, yes, I guess, you are right.
The sense of accomplishment that counts and not the number of attempts.

Though, when a friend sends a link and asks you to solve it within minutes, I dont think the word accomplishment comes to your mind.
Especially when you have 3 projects that are due for submission. :evil: :)

[Roshan]

the accomplishment of understanding the trick is something no one can take away

Queri,

The way you put it across is nice ! I like it ! :)

[Querida]

hi y'all well this i found quite amazing i knew of cross-bredding of domestic cats but of big cats as well...and that the offspring did not prove sterile as other crosses have:

http://members.aol.com/jshartwell/hybrid-bigcats.html

[Querida]

"Certainly the oldest inhabitant in The Crocodile Hunter's Australia Zoo on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, and surely the oldest inhabitant on the Australian continent, Harriet is a giant Galapagos land tortoise, collected by Charles Darwin on his famous Voyage of the Beagle. With her date of birth calculated to 1830, she's well into her 18th decade now, although she has some way to go to surpass Darwin's gift of a tortoise to the King of Tonga that lived to 189!

Steve Irwin (TV's Crocodile Hunter) and his Zoo staff have cared for Harriet since 1987, prior to which she had been at Fleay's Fauna Sanctuary for 35 years. Indeed, it was there, in 1960, that it was discovered that she was a Harriet and not a Harry! Originally named after the Brisbane Botanical Gardens curator, Harry Oakman, "Harry" had been resident in the Gardens for nearly 100 years until 1952 (when the Gardens' zoo closed, Dr David Fleay stepped in to take over).

The giant tortoise had been brought to Australia by John Wickham - a former English naval office who had been with Darwin in South America - and when Wickham left for France in the 1860s, Harriet took up residence in the Brisbane Botanical Gardens.

Charles Darwin had brought Harriet and two of her sub-species back to England, in 1835, when she was five years old and about the size of a dinner plate. Checking against Darwin's records from 1834, Harriet is a Santiago tortoise (Geochelone nigra darwini). While she still ovulates annually, she hasn't seen another Galapagos tortoise for over 150 years (or more) - and the zoo hasn't been able to trace a male of her subs species. But she's not lonely, as she is a favourite of staff and visitors alike, and simply adores company.

With the hope that she will see in her 200th anniversary at least, why not wish her a happy birthday - if anyone deserves respect for living through a lot, it must be Harriet."

[Cindy]

is your school or college famous? Check it out.. see if ur school's picture or ur group foto is listed in this site... if not... u can even upload if u have a foto with you and register ur shool on web.....

See if that Gulmohar tree, those benches, that football ground..... is there in the site..

http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com

[Querida]

:rotfl:

[arihantarihant007]

These were some of amzing & coolest facts !!!! 8) 8) 8) :wink: :wink: :twisted:







:arrow:

[ts]

In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca Recording company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out." The group was called The Beatles.

In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modeling Agency, told modeling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck." He went on to become the most popular singer in America, named Elvis Presley.

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"

When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."

In the 1940's, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947 - after seven long years of rejections! He finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, the Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his invention, an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation we know today.

Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children. She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last. For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl, who was told she would never walk again, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.

[Querida]

wow thats really inspirational!

check this out...see how your age is gauged:

http://www.frontiernet.net/%7Ecdm/age1.html

kinda nice to know i'm 63 years 5 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 84 :P

[scorpio]

TS,

Pretty interesting snippets.

Querida,

The site was nice and the analysis was interesting to read!

[Deep_Secrets]

The only possible way to lick your elbow is to break your arm off and then do it. :twisted:

[Deep_Secrets]

is your school or college famous? Check it out.. see if ur school's picture or ur group foto is listed in this site... if not... u can even upload if u have a foto with you and register ur shool on web.....

See if that Gulmohar tree, those benches, that football ground..... is there in the site..

http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com

That was sooooo funny....The one on my left must be you, Cindy :poke:

[Cindy]

Gooshi

Good that u edited that post.. i was about to PM you. :wink:

Cindy.

[Deep_Secrets]

I already forgot what the previous one contained :roll:

[pavalamani pragasam]

Age can’t be measured by the number of your birthdays. In the first place, biological time isn’t at all the same thing as clock time. As the years pile up, biological time slows down; the older you are, the more slowly you age. Your eyes began to age at ten; your hearing about twenty. By thirty your muscular strength, reaction time and reproductive powers have all passed their peak. On the other hand, your mind is still young and growing at fifty; your brain doesn’t reach its zenith until ten years after that. And from sixty on, mental efficiency declines very slowly to the age of eighty. Men and women who refuse to grow up emotionally are usually the first ones to grow old; and the reason why, in later years,some people relapse into second childhood is that they never really emerged from their first. My formula for staying young is simple: concentrate on the part of you that’s still young and growing- your brain. Keep your mind awake and you’ll stay young all over. Irrespective of years, staying young is easy for those who live in the future. You can do it if you care enough to try. Keep your mind active; that’s the only youth elixir guaranteed to work.

[Querida]

is this comment for the age gauge?

I wasn't taking it seriously it was just 'amazing' if you will, to see what you age had to do with albeit american landmark events and dates...it was just for fun

[Nosferatu]

A zebra is white with black stripes.

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

The cockroach is the fastest animal on 6 legs covering a meter a second.

[Nosferatu]

It is impossible to lick your elbow. ( I know you gonna try this !!! )

In 1883 the explosion of the volcano Krakatoa put so much dust into the earth's atmosphere that sunsets appeared green and the moon appeared blue around the world for almost two years.

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

[Nosferatu]

i guess most of these r not really amazing facts, but useless acts.... but who cares?!!! they r good na.....

[Nosferatu]

in the previous post i meant useless facts not acts

[Nosferatu]

The Moon is drifting away from the Earth. Each year, it moves about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) farther into space.

When we sneeze, air moves through our noses at about 950 kmph.

No two zebras have stripes that are exactly alike.

[Nosferatu]

and here is an amusing fact

In 1982, a cactus in Phoenix, Arizona killed a man. David Grundman fired two shotgun blasts at a giant saguaro cactus that ended up falling on top of him.

[scorpio]

Hi,

If you are copy-pasting from some website, why dont u simply give the link so that we can read there? Will save u lot of time too..

[Badri]

Yes, but perhaps Nosferatu is interested in upping his/her rank???

:lol:

[a.ratchasi]

Now... we dont want to frighten off newbies, do we?
:)

[Deep_Secrets]

scorpio....that was so bold.

The person being addressed must be really embarrassed. :oops: :)

[Deep_Secrets]

Well, I am editing my irrelevant posts with copy-pasting :oops: but oh well....

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces are enough to kill a small dog.

From http://www.geocities.com/a1yadu/amazing_facts.html

Woah!!! All dog owners, take this seriously. :)

[scorpio]

scorpio....that was so bold.

The person being addressed must be really embarrassed. :oops: :)

Bold?? I seriously thought it was a good suggestion. Try this link-
http://www.indianchild.com/amazing_facts.htm
This has many of the facts posted. I know this as this is one site my daughter browses often! :)

[Deep_Secrets]

Good suggestion, true. I used the term bold because I am unable to suggest such things like the one you did. I don't like embarrassing others.(and Im sure you didn't mean to embarrass him/her either :wink:)

Thanks for the site. I'll browse it thoroughly after this.

[blahblah]

I have an irrelevant question and would really appreciate if someone answers...

Is it possible to change a username? If not, then can accounts be deleted to make new ones? I want to either change my username or make a new account after deleting this one.

Gooshi,If I may take the liberty,simply forget your old ID and create a new one.No one cares here or that's my experience.I don't think any one will be complaining as you don't seem to have any enemies here! :lol: :lol: :wink:

[Querida]

Gooshi to be safe ask the admins about it...I know Mr. Sudhamma had the same dilemma...

[Deep_Secrets]

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. :shock:

That must be true for me! I sleep with my mouth open :rotfl:

[Deep_Secrets]

There are more chickens than people in the world

Are they insulting us? :lol2:

[Deep_Secrets]

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

Well, I'll outlive my older sister then! :clap:

[Querida]

so remedy the situation by posting something amazing :D

[Deep_Secrets]

Well....I'll be doing the same thing as Nosferatu then :wink: ....copy-pasting :notworthy:

[tomato]

Check this out.

http://www.mysticalball.com/

[Deep_Secrets]

Yup...can't believe it at all Tomato :shock: ....how does it work? :huh:

[Deep_Secrets]

I try to cheat it but :cry: ....

[Deep_Secrets]

I do have an amazing fact...

Humans can't fly!!!!!!!!!!! :poke:

Well except in planes :roll:.....

That wasn't amazing, I know :wave: ....just posting out of boredom :|

[tomato]

Clue: The mystery ball does not guess the original No. u think but the final No. u get after all the calculations.

[Shekhar]

Guys, the whole thing is so simple that I am wondering why you are wondering.
The answer is always in multiples of 9. So he has given the same symbol for multiples of nine. When you click on ball the same symbol comes. For different screens, he just changes the symbols for multiples of nine.
With out even tying to calculte anything you click you will find the symbol.. :wink:

[Cindy]

yea many such games with number 9, gooshi, instead of hitting your lovely head on wall, just see what is the image for 9 and click the ball... dont waste time in calculating.. ha ha ha ha...

[Deep_Secrets]

People are always taking advantage of me :cry: :lol: ...Thanks.

Actually I am new to number 9 games...this is the first one. :)

[tomato]

Guys, the whole thing is so simple that I am wondering why you are wondering.


Thanx a lot Shekar for such a good explanation, but for the sake of those who r new to these games, u could have been courteous enough to be silent.

[a.ratchasi]

Guys, the whole thing is so simple that I am wondering why you are wondering.


Thanx a lot Shekar for such a good explanation, but for the sake of those who r new to these games, u could have been courteous enough to be silent.

Shekhar is courteous enough to stop dear gooshi from hurting her head further.

[Shekhar]

Thanx a lot Shekar for such a good explanation, but for the sake of those who r new to these games, u could have been courteous enough to be silent.

Sorry, I didn't intend to be a spoil sport. I know it is like telling the climax of a suspense movie. I was just reacting instinctively to Gooshi's post.

[Shekhar]

yea ratchasi.. Gooshi's head wouldn't have withstood the suspense!! :lol: :lol:

[ts]

...some more facts now.....


In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight".

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what was know today as the honeymoon.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's"

Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice.

In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.

In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. When Mary, later Queen of Scots, went to France as a young girl (for education & survival) Louis, King of France, learned that she loved the Scot game golf. So he had the first golf course outside of Scotland built for her enjoyment. To make sure she was properly chaperoned (and guarded) while she played Louis ordered cadets from a military school to accompany her. Mary liked this a lot and when she returned to Scotland (not a very good idea in the long run) she took the practice with her. In French the word cadet is pronounced 'ca-day' & the Scots bastardized it into caddie.

Did you ever wonder why dimes, quarters and half dollars have notched edges, while pennies and nickels do not?
The US Mint began putting notches on the edges of coins containing gold and silver to discourage holders from shaving off small quantities of the precious metals. Dimes, quarters and half dollars are notched because they used to contain silver. Pennies and nickels aren't notched because the metals they contain are not valuable enough to shave.

Why do men's clothes have buttons on the right while women's clothes have buttons on the left?
When buttons were invented, they were very expensive and worn primarily by the rich. Because wealthy women were dressed by maids, dressmakers put the buttons on the maid's right. Since most people are right-handed, it is easier to push buttons on the right through holes on the left. And that's where women's buttons have remained since.

Why do X's at the end of a letter signify kisses?
In the Middle Ages, when many people were unable to read or write, documents were often signed using an X. Kissing the X represented an oath to fulfill obligations specified in the document. The X and the kiss eventually became synonymous.

Why is shifting responsibility to someone else is called "passing the buck"?
In card games, it was once customary to pass an item, called a buck, from player to player to indicate whose turn it was to deal. If a player did not wish to assume the responsibility, he would "pass the buck" to the next player.

Why do people clink their glasses before drinking a toast?
It used to be common for someone to try to kill an enemy by offering him a poisoned drink. To prove to a guest that a drink was safe, it became customary for a guest to pour a small amount of his drink into the glass of the host. Both men would drink it simultaneously. When a guest trusted his host, he would then touch - or clink - the host's glass with his own.

Why are people in the public eye are said to be "in the limelight"?
Invented in 1825, limelight was used in lighthouses and stage lighting by burning a cylinder of lime which produced a brilliant light. In the theater, performers on stage "in the limelight" were seen by the audience to be the center of attention.

Why do ships and aircraft in trouble use "mayday" as their call for Help?
This comes from the French word m'aidez -- meaning "help me" --and is pronounced "mayday."

Why is someone who is feeling great "on cloud nine"?
Types of clouds are numbered according to the altitudes they attain, with nine being the highest cloud If someone is said to be on cloud nine, that person is floating well above worldly cares.

Why is Zero scores in tennis are called "love"?
In France, where tennis first became popular, a big, round zero on scoreboard looked like an egg and was called l'oeuf, which is French for "egg." When tennis was introduced in the US, Americans pronounced it "love,"

Why are many coin banks are shaped like pigs?
Long ago, dishes and cookware in Europe were made of a dense, orange clay called pygg. When people saved coins in jars made of this clay, the jars became know as pygg banks." When an English potter misunderstood the word, he made a bank that resembled a pig. And it caught on.

[Jowill]

okay that last entry was great.
has anyone tried some good Indian restaurants in LA? I just moved to SoCal and need suggestions. I'm a big green curry fan, vegetables with everything, and just recently tried a new kind of drink, B(E)....that would be a great meal...

[Deep_Secrets]

haha everybody :) ...

Try out this site....be sure to maximize the volume as much as possible or else you'll miss out on something...You have to wait for a long time before that something :lol2:....

[Badri]

The placard had F.*.*.*. Fornication Under Consent of the King

So, if they could F*** when a king ruled, what did they do when they had a Queen ruling, I wonder? :lol:

[Querida]

haha everybody :) ...

Try out this site....be sure to maximize the volume as much as possible or else you'll miss out on something...You have to wait for a long time before that something :lol2:....

hmmm what site? :?
hey very amusing TS thanx for that :D
FUCQ doesn't really make a diff in pronounciation now does it? :wink:

[Deep_Secrets]

Oh sorry...it's http://www.tekzoned.com/whatswrong/

[ts]

1. A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
2. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. YUCK!
3. The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. I know some people like that!
6. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.
7. A 2 X 4 is really 1-1/2 by 3-1/2.
8. During the chariot scene in "Ben Hur", a small red car can be seen in the distance.
9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
10. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.
12. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
13. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver.
14. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan". There was never a recorded Wendy before.
15. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
16. If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. Who was the sadist who discovered this??
17. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to s-l-o-w film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
18. The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA".
19. The original name for butterfly was flutterby.
20. 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.
21. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.
22. Roses may be red, but violets are indeed violet.
23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER??
24. Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.
25. Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.
26. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
27. Sherlock Holmes NEVER said "Elementary, my dear Watson".
28. An old law in Bellingham, Washington, made it illegal for a woman to take more than 3 steps backwards while dancing. ????
29. The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
30. The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
31. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them. Not to mention the other drawback to passing gas in such a confined space....
32. Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!!

[Badri]

23. By raising your legs slowly and laying on your back, you cannot sink into quicksand. GOOD FACT TO REMEMBER??

Only problem is you have to keep lying that way...and never get out, unless someone comes by to help! :lol:

[Deep_Secrets]

Hmmmm...so anyone visited it??? :?

[Surya]

I just did. :cry:

Go on guys. Visit it!!!! :lol2:

[Deep_Secrets]

I just did. :cry:

Go on guys. Visit it!!!! :lol2:

OOOoooooh... :lol:

[Surya]

Visit this!! :D :D Turn ur volume up to the max if possible for the best effect!!!!! :D

-Taken down by me, not suitable for KIDS!!!!- :wink:

[Deep_Secrets]

Interesting site Surya...not appropriate for kids.Yooohoooo :o ! listening, all you newbies? :twisted:

[Surya]

:lol2: Exactly Pa!!

[Surya]

/////////not appropriate for kids...yooohoooo////
Ur a kid? :shock:

[Deep_Secrets]

/////////not appropriate for kids...yooohoooo////
Ur a kid? :shock:

:rotfl: .....no, I was addressing NEWBIES. Am I a newbie :roll: ? There, I just edited my last post. Take a look...Don't blame you :wink:

[Surya]

Oh...ok, I removed the link, now I lost it! :banghead:

[Deep_Secrets]

Not to worry, type in 'subliminal messages' in search and you'll get those kind of sites in abundance... :twisted:

[Deep_Secrets]

Cindy and Shekhar, whose hitting their head :? ?

[Cindy]

??

This is an old theme for most hubbers here..Ma

There is a similar powerpoint presentation available in the "ghosts" thread... will check later and post the link to that post..

[Deep_Secrets]

??

Read through again that part of hitting heads and a little before it...

[Cindy]

DS,

just got the link.. here it is..

http://forumhub.lunarpages.com/hub/viewtopic.php?p=59213#59213

Enjoy! :D

[Deep_Secrets]

Cindy!!!! It's 1:49 am here :shock: :shock: :shock:...darkness all around me. Will visit it in morning light...Thanks. Wonder what it is :? ...

[Deep_Secrets]

DS,

just got the link.. here it is..

http://forumhub.lunarpages.com/hub/viewtopic.php?p=59213#59213

Enjoy! :D

Can't play it...Don't have PowerPoint so may that be the reason :? ?

[Deep_Secrets]

A chicken once had its head cut off and survived for over eighteen months, headless. :shock: :shock: :shock:

India has a Bill of Rights for cows. :? ...Is that true?

[scorpio]

If you are a Harry Potter fan, here are the reasons to feel proud of-

If all Harry Potter books ever sold were placed end to end, they would go around the equator 1.4 times.


If all the Harry Potter books ever sold were laid flat, they would cover the area of about 1000 football pitches. Or they could be used to carpet Monaco 3.7 times.


On its first day of sale in the UK, Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix sold at a rate of 21 books per second. If all those books sold in the UK in the first day were stacked up the pile would be 12 times higher than Mount Everest.


If one person were to read every Harry Potter book ever sold - at a rate of one per day - it would take them over 700,000 years to do so.


The total number of Harry Potter books ever sold is more than the populations of Britain, France, Germany and Italy combined.

[pavalamani pragasam]

[tscii:7ce9502992]Some interesting information found in this week’s Tamil weekly, “Ananda Vikadan”: In Sujatha’s column, “KaRRathum peRRathum” he has quoted his friend’s words about Douglas Adams, a science fiction writer. According to Adams there are 4 “sand ages” in modern science just as there were stone age, bronze age & iron age. I’ll give the news in Tamil first and then its translation:

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Now the translation:
In the first sand age man melted sand & made glass, from that made lens, & with lens invented telescope & began watching the stars. That saw the beginning of cosmology.

In the second sand age microscopes were made reversing the lens made in the previous age. With the help of microscope man observed minute creatures & living matter like bacteria. From that origin of molecular biology he has advanced towards the secret of life.

Third sand age saw the silicon chip. With that man made computer & extended his mental speed.

Fourth sand age saw the advent of fibre optic cable which has enabled information avalanche creating fundamental changes all over!
[/tscii:7ce9502992]

[ts]

STORY NUMBER ONE
World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Butch O'Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission. After he was airborne, he looked at his fuel gauge and realized that someone had forgotten to top off his fuel tank. He would not have enough fuel to complete his mission and get back to his ship. His flight leader told him to return to the carrier. Reluctantly he dropped out of formation and headed back to the fleet.

As he was returning to the mothership, he saw something that turned his blood cold. A squadron of Japanese Zeroes were speeding their way toward the American fleet. The American fighters were gone on a sortie and the fleet was all but defenseless. He couldn't reach his squadron and bring them back in time to save the fleet. Nor, could he warn the fleet of the approaching danger.

There was only one thing to do. He must somehow divert them from the fleet. Laying aside all thoughts of personal safety, he dove into the formation of Japanese planes. Wing-mounted 50 calibers blazed as he charged in, attacking one surprised enemy plane and then another. Butch wove in and out of the now broken formation and fired at as many planes as possible until finally all his ammunition was spent.

Undaunted, he continued the assault. He dove at the Zeroes, trying to at least clip off a wing or tail, in hopes of damaging as many enemy planes as possible and rendering them unfit to fly. He was desperate to do anything he could to keep them from reaching the American ships.

Finally, the exasperated Japanese squadron took off in another direction. Deeply relieved, Butch O'Hare and his tattered fighter limped back to the carrier. Upon arrival he reported in and related the event surrounding his return. The film from the camera mounted on his plane told the tale. It showed the extent of Butch's daring attempt to protect his fleet. He was recognized as a hero and given one of the nation's highest military honors. And today, O'Hare Airport in Chicago is named in tribute to the courage of this great man.
STORY NUMBER TWO
Some years earlier there was a man in Chicago called Easy Eddie. At that time, Al Capone virtually owned the city. Capone wasn't famous for anything heroic. His exploits were anything but praiseworthy. He was however, notorious for enmeshing the city of Chicago in everything from bootlegged booze and prostitution to murder. Easy Eddie was Capone's lawyer and for a good reason. He was very good! In fact, his skill at legal maneuvering kept Big Al out of jail for a long time.

To show his appreciation, Capone paid him very well. Not only was the money big; Eddie got special dividends. For instance, he and his family occupied a fenced in mansion with live-in help and all of the conveniences of the day. The estate was so large that it filled an entire Chicago city block. Yes, Eddie lived the high life of the Chicago mob and gave little consideration to the atrocity that went on around him.

Eddy did have one soft spot, however. He had a son that he loved dearly. Eddy saw to it that his young son had the best of everything; clothes, cars, and a good education. Nothing was withheld. Price was no object. And, despite his involvement with organized crime, Eddie even tried to teach him right from wrong. Yes, Eddie tried to teach his son to rise above his own sordid life. He wanted him to be a better man than he was.

Yet, with all his wealth and influence, there were two things that Eddie couldn't give his son. Two things that Eddie sacrificed to the Capone mob that he could not pass on to his beloved son..a good name and a good example.

One day, Easy Eddie reached a difficult decision. Offering his son a good name was far more important than all the riches he could lavish on him. He had to rectify all the wrong that he had done. He would go to the authorities and tell the truth about Scar-face Al Capone. He would try to clean up his tarnished name and offer his son some semblance of integrity. To do this he must testify against The Mob, and he knew that the cost would be great. But more than anything, he wanted to be an example to his son.

He wanted to do his best to make restoration and hopefully have a good name to leave his son. So, he testified. Within the year, Easy Eddie's life ended in a blaze of gunfire on a lonely Chicago street. He had given his son the greatest gift he had to offer at the greatest price he would ever pay. I know what you're thinking.

What do these two stories have to do with one another? . . . . .

Well you see, Butch O'Hare was Easy Eddie's son.

[nirosha sen]

Thanks for that amazing story, TS!! Have been missing you for sometime now!! Glad to have caught up Pa!! :D

[Badri]

If you are a Harry Potter fan, here are the reasons to feel proud of-

If all Harry Potter books ever sold were placed end to end, they would go around the equator 1.4 times.



The total number of Harry Potter books ever sold is more than the populations of Britain, France, Germany and Italy combined.

If all the Harry Potter books were burned, would it solve the fuel crisis by saving on coal for the next ten years???? :lol:

Only kidding, don't get your wands out!

[tomato]

jsut raed tihs........ I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod
aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal
pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can
sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Azmanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas
thought slpeling was ipmorantt! Ceehrs !

[NM]

jsut raed tihs........ I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod
aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal
pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can
sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Azmanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas
thought slpeling was ipmorantt! Ceehrs !
Vrey teru, Tmotao !! :lol: :lol:

[Deep_Secrets]

jsut raed tihs........ I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod
aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg The phaonmneal
pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are witren, the olny iprmoatnt
tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can
sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but
the wrod as a wlohe. Azmanig huh? yaeh and I awlyas
thought slpeling was ipmorantt! Ceehrs !

I hvae raed taht smehwoere bfoere :?

[NM]

DS...you seem to be having a gala time changing your avatar!! Thought I just a shark a while ago!!

[Deep_Secrets]

DS...you seem to be having a gala time changing your avatar!! Thought I just a shark a while ago!!

That was ugly :x

[Deep_Secrets]

You konw I tinhk taht you can olny raed the msesed up wdros if you hvae hared of tehm bfoere. Smeonoe (how about PP madam :P ) wirte a senetcne in relaly dfifcilut egnilsh and see if I am rgiht...

[scorpio]

http://y.20q.net/anon

Nice link..the program tries to find out what we have in mind by asking simple questions.. you'll be declared as the winner if you make it use more than 30 questions to guess the object you have in mind.. interesting time-pass.

[NM]

Scorpio, tried that, very interetsing, and I learnt a bit too....

[scorpio]

Attention-All Horlicks Moms! Received this via mail today!

Many parents in India give Horlicks to their children in hopes that it will
help them excel in studies.

In UK, Horlicks is sold as an aid to promoting sleep at night and the
manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, is recommending a glass of Horlicks before going to bed to have a good sleep.

Horlicks is sold in India and UK. If you Visit www.horlicks.com, you'll
find that the Horlicks India website is still under construction (at the
time of writing this email in May 2005), whereas the UK site www.horlicks.co.uk is up and running and clearly documents sleep related problems and how Horlicks helps in sleeping.

Malt contained in drinks such as Horlicks, Ovaltine, etc., is responsible
for promoting sleep. People who drink alchohol will be familiar with malt,especially with barley malt, which is used in the process of producing beer, lager, etc. You might have even heard of malt whiskey.

Let me be clear in stating that I'm not advocating against horlicks or any other similar drink containing malt. My only goal of this email is raise the level of awareness among parents that Horlicks helps in
sleeping and hence, should "not" be given to students while they're trying to study!

Many average children are already stressed out due to overload at school.What is the point in making them drowsy and sleepy when they go to schoolor when they are trying to study!

Initially I dint believe this, but went thru the site and found the verses
stated below.
http://www.horlicks.co.uk/main.html

[NOV]

1)Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

2)The youngest pope was 11 years old.

3)A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.

4)Henry Ford once attempted to buy the Eiffel Tower and ship it back to the United States.

5)During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of 6 elephants!

6)More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones!

7)A sneeze travels out of your mouth at over a hundred m.p.h.!

8)Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breath!!!

9)One quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet!

10)Charles Osborn had the hiccups for 65 years!

11)Only one person in 2 billion will live to be 116 or older!

12)Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

13)Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing!!!!!!!!!

14)Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


15)On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pins each year!

16)Mosquitoes have teeth*

*a goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.*

*A star fish has no heart*

*Dolphins sleep with one eye open*

*Alligators can't move backwards*

*Penguins can jump 6 feet into the air*

*Honeybees have a kind of hair on their eyes*

*Starfish is one of the few animals who can turn their stomach inside out*

*The elephant is one of the few animals that can't jump*

*Bats always turn left when exiting a cave*

*The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn it's head*

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


17)Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!

18)What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.

19)"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.

20)"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.

21)In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

22)A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!

23)Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.

24)You can't kill yourself by holding your breath

25)There is a city called Rome on every continent.

26)It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!

27)Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!

28)Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

[Badri]

Some one at work sent this to me!! The Pope referred to here was the last Pope John Paul II



The Pope died 02.04.2005 -> 2+4+2+5= 13

The time of his death is: 21:37 -> 2+1+3+7= 13

This is week 13 in year 2005

He was the Pope for 26 years and 5 months -> 2+6+5= 13

which is 9301 days -> 9+3+0+1= 13

13 May -> he was shot by would-be assassin

By years, the Pope was 85 -> 8+5=13

Karol Wojtya had been chosen for Pope when 58. Again it's 13

John Paul II was 265th Pope -the sum of these numbers is ...13

[HindustaniLadka]

Here are some facts about India(forgive me if someone already posted these earlier):

The first advanced civilization started in India(The Vedic Civilization of the Indus Valley Area).

Indian Civilizations were the first to use metal.

India has the fourth largest navy in the world.

India has the second largest army in the world.

The Indian language, Sanskrit, is known to be the mother of all higher langauges and it is the most flawless language in the world.

According to Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the only language that is suitable to make a computer programming language.

Chess was invented in India.

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century. The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 10*53 ( i.e 10 to the power of 53 ) with specific names as early as 5000 B.C. during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).

The' place value system' and the 'decimal system' were developed in 100 BC in India.

The World's First Granite Temple is the Brihadeswara temple at Tanjavur in Tamil Nadu. The shikhara is made from a single ' 80-tonne ' piece of granite. Also, this magnificient temple was built in just five years, (between 1004 AD and 1009 AD) during the reign of Rajaraja Chola.

India is the largest democracy in the world and the sixth largest country in the world.

India has the most post offices in the world.

India has the largest bus system in the world.

Indias railway is the largest employer in the world. It employs over a MILLION people.

The art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh over 6000 years ago. The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.

Bhaskaracharya rightly calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart. His calculations was - Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: ( 5th century ) 365.258756484 days.

The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.

Until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.

Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery. Over 2600 years ago Sushrata & his team conducted complicated surgeries like cataract, artificial limbs, cesareans, fractures, urinary stones and also plastic surgery and brain surgeries.

Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India medicine. Detailed knowledge of anatomy, embryology, digestion, metabolism, physiology, etiology, genetics and immunity is also found in many ancient Indian texts.

Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.

Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century. Christopher Columbus was attracted by India's wealth.

38% of Doctors in America are Indians.
12% of Scientists in America are Indians.
36% of NASA employees are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of Intel employees are Indians.
13% of Xerox employees are Indians.

Albert Einstein said: We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Mark Twain said: India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

French scholar Romain Rolland said: If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA said: India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

The IAF was the first airforce to fly Jets in Asia.

India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

India is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.

India is the world's largest consumer of gold. And, by year 2000 the Indian market for gold will reach 1000 tons.

India is one of the biggest players in the international fashion arena. Buyers such as Macys, Levi's, Wrangler, etc. all flock to India for its vast array of cloths and prints.

The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC.

India has one of the largest middle classes in the world nearly 250 million people which is the total population of the United States.

USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of wireless communication was Prof Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

[r_kk]

Here are some facts about India(forgive me if someone already posted these earlier):

According to Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the only language that is suitable to make a computer programming language.


India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

India is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.

India is the world's largest consumer of gold. And, by year 2000 the Indian market for gold will reach 1000 tons.

Hi HL,
some of your statements are not true. Even though I appreciate your proudness of being Indian, the above statements or being proud about old history are going to bring any real source of wealth or happiness to any one.

As on today, sanskrit is spoken by very limited people and its application to computer programming is highly questionable. Can you please explain how it is better than any other language for programming?

As usual with many kings, Indian Kings also equally egoistic and fought many wars with other Indian Kings for useless reasons. Raja Rajan could able to reach Indinesia and Srilanka. If you call all these countries as part of old India, your claims may be correct. The other major reason for not imposing war on other countries is that India is being land locked by Himalyas and seas.

"India is the only society has never know slavery....!!!"
... surprising news. We can tell India is the only country still slavery exist in the form of caste system.

Regarding the quantity of Gold purchased by Indians... Gold is the form of locked or unflow money. In a real economical development of a country such large blockage of money by individual in the form of Gold will not bring any growth to the country. We can tell differently that India is the one of the place where lot of money is invested on useless decorative jewells (also part of money transfer in illegal practices like dowry, black money storage etc).

[HindustaniLadka]

Here are some facts about India(forgive me if someone already posted these earlier):

According to Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the only language that is suitable to make a computer programming language.


India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.

India is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.

India is the world's largest consumer of gold. And, by year 2000 the Indian market for gold will reach 1000 tons.

Hi HL,
some of your statements are not true. Even though I appreciate your proudness of being Indian, the above statements or being proud about old history are going to bring any real source of wealth or happiness to any one.

As on today, sanskrit is spoken by very limited people and its application to computer programming is highly questionable. Can you please explain how it is better than any other language for programming?

As usual with many kings, Indian Kings also equally egoistic and fought many wars with other Indian Kings for useless reasons. Raja Rajan could able to reach Indinesia and Srilanka. If you call all these countries as part of old India, your claims may be correct. The other major reason for not imposing war on other countries is that India is being land locked by Himalyas and seas.

"India is the only society has never know slavery....!!!"
... surprising news. We can tell India is the only country still slavery exist in the form of caste system.

Regarding the quantity of Gold purchased by Indians... Gold is the form of locked or unflow money. In a real economical development of a country such large blockage of money by individual in the form of Gold will not bring any growth to the country. We can tell differently that India is the one of the place where lot of money is invested on useless decorative jewells (also part of money transfer in illegal practices like dowry, black money storage etc).

Sanskrit is better as a programming language than other spoken langauges because it is syntactially perfect, it is the most unambiguous langauge on Earth, and it is systematically perfect.
Also, Sanskrit itself may not be spoken by many people today, but it is still alive in many Indian languages like Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, etc.

As for the thing about India not invading other countries, i'm not sure whether any of the countries in South-East Asia were populated at the time. I think you could be correct on the other part though, but i have to research more about that.

India is the largest consumer of gold because it has great value in Indian culture, not because of illegal practices or anything liek that. People buying gold and jewels for themselves is not going to hurt the Indian economy in anyway. It is not like India is going by the gold standard or anything like that.

When i say slavery, i mean literal slavery where people are forcefully captured and forced to work. The caste system does not really force people to work, they can run away without being chased after if they feel like. In real slavery, the slaves are chained down to their masters property and if they try to escape they will be killed. When you think about it, every country has its onwn form of the caste system. For example, in America, the poor are kept down and they are expected to do all the labor jobs, the business class is looked down upon by the rich and educated class. There is even a racial herarchy. Asians and Indians are ussually in the higher intellectual class. Whites are basically spread out into every class. African-Americans and Hispanics are generally in the lower labour class. Anyway, my point is that the caste system exists everywhere, but the only difference is that it does not have a name in other nations.

Oh, by the way, i'm not trying to say the corrupted form of the caste system that has been followed for some time around the world is correct and i am not trying to be racist. I know there are plenty of successful African-Americans and Hispanics in America, but if you look at statistics, they are generally poorer than others...not because they are inferior, but because tey have been pushed down throughout history.(Slavery, etc.)

[r_kk]

Hi HL,
If I write about the slavery based on caste system, this thread may be deleted. If you want to know the reality go to Bihar or UP remote village and see tha facts. You also try to find out the source for the system. If someone want to just to be proud without bothering reality, then no explanation will help.

Similarly about Sanskrit... Language is meant for communication and nothing to be proud about it. If an language is having flexibity and has ability to hold latest things it will survive. Please understand why Sanskrit is not able to survive.

Please ask any economical expert, whether storing large wealth in the form of Gold is right or not. More over there is nothing to be proud about Indian's Gold Craze.

We can't be proud about the % of intelectuals working in NASA or MS or any bigger MNCs. I feel that it is some kind of racial proudness!!! If some one had achieved some thing personally it is totally theirs and nothing to be proud about as Indian. I think we can be more proud about the underpaid ISRO or NIC scientists.

I feel there is no use being proud about or feel shame about one's old heritage, past history or achievement of others or things which came without any effort.

[HindustaniLadka]

Ok...it depends on your opinion i guess.

//Please ask any economical expert, whether storing large wealth in the form of Gold is right or not. More over there is nothing to be proud about Indian's Gold Craze. //

No one stores wealth in gold. People buy it for jewelry, etc. I don'
t see anything wrong in buying gold.

[Guyana]

From: r_kk on Tue May 17 4:04:03 2005

Wrote: "I feel there is no use being proud about or feel shame about one's old heritage, past history or achievement of others or things which came without any effort."

Well many people do just because they are born Indians. They think they have somewhat "earned" the past into the present over others born elsewhere, from which all sorts of claims and denials are made. On the contrary, if you are Hindu and knowledgeable about it, its a "crime" to discuss and share it. At the same time, they want to entertain preconceived ideas, then form false basis to attack and to be able to do so, they select what they want. These are some of the reasons why I stayed here for as long as I did (it was never in my agenda, it came my way as I was dealing with other issues) which has been very expensive for me, more than I ever indicated. I hope others like HL will learn.

Its good to look to the past glory which we are all part of, but its best to look at the present and future which we are not all part of. Half the time here, only one of the dimensions along the past is singled out for importance, which only comforts the sole, found to be Discriminatory and self serving with no positive hope.

>>From: r_kk on Tue May 17 4:04:03 2005.
... Language is meant for communication and nothing to be proud about it<< :evil: Its used to determine your Indianess.


I was finally able to put things in place so that this "fort" is watched and monitored which gives me the relief I desperately needed.

[HindustaniLadka]

Why is it that you people are only skeptical about something when it is pro-India or pro-Hindu? You don't seem to have any problems if we say something good about another country or religion.

[Idiappam]

Why is it that you people are only skeptical about something when it is pro-India or pro-Hindu? You don't seem to have any problems if we say something good about another country or religion.

We just don't believe lies!

[aravindhan]

Whilst a lot of the facts you presented are true, a number are not. Since this thread is supposed to be about true facts, I thought I ought to correct the most obvious mistakes.


The first advanced civilization started in India(The Vedic Civilization of the Indus Valley Area).
That it was Vedic is a matter of opinion - it hasn't been proven, nor is there very much evidence to demonstrate vedic-ness. Additionally, the oldest excavated bits date to about 2500 B.C., which is a little younger than the oldest pyramids.

The Indus civilisation was, however, by far the most extensive of the ancient civilisations that have been excavated to date.


The Indian language, Sanskrit, is known to be the mother of all higher langauges and it is the most flawless language in the world.
There is precious little evidence to show that any languages other than the northern Indian languages, Sinhala, and Romani have descended from Sanskrit. In any event, what is the distinction between a "higher" and a "lower" language? What objective criteria do you use to measure "flaws" in a language?


According to Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the only language that is suitable to make a computer programming language.
http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/perl_enhance.html


Algebra, trigonometry and calculus also orignated from India. Quadratic equations were used by Sridharacharya in the 11th century.
Differential calculus, but not integral calculus.


Even today, the largest used number is Tera: 10*12( 10 to the power of 12 ).
This is not quite true. Modern science recognises and uses Peta: 10^15; Exa: 10^18; Zetta: 10^21; Yotta: 10^24; and so on, working backwards down the Latin names for the letters of the alphabet. The largest number for which there is a name today is (as far as I am aware) the googleplex, which is 10^10^100. This is not to say that ancient Indian mathematics was not advanced in its own way (it was, and it was also clearly flawed, as I explained in another thread); but let's get our facts straight, yes?


Indias railway is the largest employer in the world. It employs over a MILLION people.
I don't think our bloated PSUs are really something to be proud of.


The very word 'Navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
It comes from the participle of the Latin "navigare". A 't' rarely transforms into a 'r', so your etymology is not very likely.


The word navy is also derived from the Sanskrit word 'Nou'.
More correctly, from the Anglo-Saxon word "now", which is derived from the proto-Germanic cognate of the Sanskrit word.


The value of "pi" was first calculated by the Indian Mathematician Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century, which was long before the European mathematicians.
Pythagorus lived in the 6th century BC. "Long before"?


Varanasi, also known as Benares, was called "the ancient city" when Lord Buddha visited it in 500 B.C.E, and is the oldest, continuously inhabited city in the world today.
Ruins excavated at Damsacus show the city was settled in the 4th *millenium* BC. I am not aware of any such archeological evidence for Varanasi - could you give details, please?


Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.
Even at the time of independence, India was one of the world's ten biggest economies in terms of GDP. We took ourselves downhill thereafter all by ourselves, without requiring the help of the vellaikaarar.


India has never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
The Tamil Chola kings invaded and annexed Sri Lanka during the 10th century. They also fought a fierce war with the Sri Vijaya empire over trading rights with China, during the course of which they invaded and sacked several major ports in Malaya and Sumatra. This is a much celebrated war in Tamil history, and I think it's a crying shame that people outside Tamil Nadu don't read about it in their history books.


India invented the Number System. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
Aryabhatta seems to have been aware of the concept of zero, but he does not mention it in his treatise. The word "kha" as he uses it means position, not zero - it was not given the sense of zero until Bhaskara's commentary (if memory serves right). Brahmagupta was the first to expressly discuss the concept of zero, though he - and later Indian mathematecians - had a lot of difficulty with the concept of division by zero (which is quite understandable, given the way Indian mathematics worked in those days, and their understanding was still a good bit better than that of Fibonacci in the 13th century).


India is one of the biggest players in the international fashion arena. Buyers such as Macys, Levi's, Wrangler, etc. all flock to India for its vast array of cloths and prints.
...and is now in the process of being overtaken by China, thanks to inconsistent and half-baked economic policies thrust upon us by the politics of governing as a coalition.


Sanskrit is better as a programming language than other spoken langauges because it is syntactially perfect, it is the most unambiguous langauge on Earth, and it is systematically perfect.
I must confess to being quite vexed by this claim. Both Sayana and Yaskha complain about how Sanskrit words are capable of so many meanings due to the way its root-system functions. In the Rgveda, for example, "vrka" can mean both wolf and knife, as they gleefully point out. Classical Sanskrit is relatively (but not totally) precise in its syntactical structure, and is generally (but not absolutely) lexical transparent, but that isn't the same thing as "most unambiguous" at all. Several other languages (such as Tamil) display both.

[PARAMASHIVAN]

1) Did you know that' Tongue' is the strongest 'muscle' in your body

2) Did you know 'Honda' makes the 'most Engines ' in the world? around 14 millions engines a day ranging from cars, bikes, boats to air planes

3) Did you know if you spread your small intestine, it streches up to 25 feet

4) Did you know that 'Toyota' are the world's largest automobile producers?


carry on .....

[PARAMASHIVAN]

5) Did you know thatch 'Tiger' is a lone 'hunter', :notworthy: he hunts alone, while 'Lions' hunt in groups :rotfl:

6) Did you know that 'Lions' suffocates the prey by squeezing the prey's neck for 10 secs, while 'Tiger' kills the pre instantly by biting on the neck and parallelising the prey by cracking the spine?
:shaking: :skull: :frightened:

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:goodidea:

[podalangai]

Thanks Paramasivan. Good to see this topic being revived. There's another older thread about amazing facts here:
http://forumhub.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?t=1642
Could a moderator please merge them?

[PARAMASHIVAN]

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You are welcome :)

[PARAMASHIVAN]

Thanks Paramasivan. Good to see this topic being revived. There's another older thread about amazing facts here:
http://forumhub.mayyam.com/hub/viewtopic.php?t=1642
Could a moderator please merge them?

U r welcome

[PARAMASHIVAN]

1) Did you know that it takes 20 mins for your brain to work out whether you are full or not after a meal or drink

2) Did you know that 'Tiger' is heavier and 'Stronger' than a lion?

( I have seen a programm on TV, where they leave a fully grown adult male tiger and a lion to fight, Tiger wins)

3) Did you know Canada is 2nd largest country in the world after russia, while china being the third?

4) Did u know that an average adult human has about 200 bones? :shock:

[sathya_1979]

4) Did u know that an average adult human has about 200 bones? :shocked:
206 to be precise!

[PARAMASHIVAN]

4) Did u know that an average adult human has about 200 bones? :shocked:
206 to be precise! :ty: