10 Amazing Facts about Human Brain

1. Weight:


Human brain weighs 3 pounds.

2. Pain:

Human brain does not feel any pain because there are no pain receptors in brain.

3. Percentage Of Fat:
Human brain is the fattest organ in the body, its contents are, at least, 60% fat.

4. Survival Without Oxygen:
Human brain can survive for 4 to 6 minutes without oxygen before it starts to die

5. Time before loss of consciousness:
Human brain gets 8 to 10 seconds before losing consciousness due to blood loss


6. Power generated by brain:

Human brain generates 10 to 23 watts of power when awake (that’s enough to turn on a light bulb!)
7. Part of oxygen and blood received by brain:

Human brain gets 20% of the total body oxygen and blood.
8. Total length of blood vessels in the brain:

Total length of blood vessels present in the human brain is 100,000 miles.
9. Number of synapses:

Human brain contains 1,000 to 10,000 synapses for each neuron.
10. Number of neurons:

Human brain contains 100 billion neurons.

40 Interesting Dream Facts

1. Every human dreams. There are tons of people who can’t remember their dreams when they wake up, but they still get them
2. Human beings spend roughly around 6 years of their lifetime dreaming
3. Sometimes we dream outside of our REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement)
4. Thousands of years ago, the Egyptians were the first to create a dream dictionary in 4000 B.C.E
5. We roughly spend around 1/3 of our lives sleeping
6. People who suffer from a personality disorder lack dream activity
7. Our brains tend to be way more active when we sleep, than when we’re awake
8. Humans tend to have around 3 to 7 dreams a night. We dream around 2 to 3 hours in a whole night
9. 90% of the dream is lost the first minute we wake up
10. Men tend to dream about men more than women, and women dream about people of both genders
11. Drug withdrawal can cause more intense dreams. People who also quit alcohol and smoking experience heavier dreams and nightmares
12. You can lucid dream for up to 30 minutes if trained properly
13. It’s impossible to dream when you’re snoring
14. Babies don’t dream of themselves until they reach the age of 3
15. More women than men experience deja-vu in their dreams (eg. you have been in the dream before)
16. People who experience Sleep Paralysis hear voices and see strangers in their rooms
17. Nightmares happen more to kids than adults
18. Blind people dream. Their dreams are auditory if they were born blind. If they became blind at an early age, they still dream of what they remember
19. Did you know around 100 000 drivers a year crash going in and out of sleep in their cars
20. Thousands of people suffer from sleep apnea in America
21. Men get erections in their REM sleep and women have an increased blood flow to their vaginas
22. You can translate over 5000 dream symbols
23. The word “Nightmare” was used a long time ago for a female spirit who besets people at night while sleeping
24. On average, dogs sleep around 10 to 13 hours a day
25. The colder your house is, the worse your dreams are. They say that if your room is at an average temperature, you have better sleeps
26. Your body burns more calories sleeping than it does in the day time
27. Information that we learn before we go to bed tends to stick with us longer than information any other time
28. On average, cats sleep 10 to 15 hours a day
29. If you avoid your sleep for more than 10 days, you will die
30. A giraffe sleeps for only 2 hours a day
31. Most dreams are based on visual images (Except in people who were either born blind, or who lost their sight at an early age). Occasionally, dreams will include sound and touch.
32. The normal rules of logic do not apply in dreams. For example, the dream may be taking place in one location – then, abruptly, the dreamer is translocated to a completely different place.
33. Most dreams occur in a house – but this is usually not your own home. The most frequently reported room is the living room. People rarely dream about their work place or school.
34. The most frequent scenario is the dreamer plus two other people.
35. Famous people seldom appear in our dreams. The vast majority of people dream about people who are significant to them, especially if there is an ongoing conflict.
36. Mundane activities (such as brushing your teeth) rarely appear in dreams.
37. Dreams tend not to be happy events, and the three most common reported emotions are anger, sadness and fear.
38. Some themes are so common that they are reported the world over. These universal themes include the loss of a tooth, falling or flying, exhibition, arriving late for exams or other important events, and being chased or attacked.
39. Cross-cultural research indicates that our dreams reflect normal life events in our own country and culture.
40. There appear to be some differences in the content of dreams between the two sexes. Specifically, women are more likely to dream about their children, family or household activities; men are more likely to dream about strangers, violence, sexual activity, achievement, and outdoor events.

‎50 Amazing Google Facts and Figures

1. The unusual nickname was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to regulate site importance but ultimately changed the name to Google originating from the misspelling of the word “Googol (the mathematician’s term for the number one followed by one hundred zeros) to imply the large quantities of information for people that it would provide....
2. Google.com domain went online in 1997
3. Google began as a research project in 1996
4. The first backing of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems
5. The CEO for ‘Excite’ George Bell rejected to buy Google when it was offered to him for $1 million when Brin and Page were finding the search engine taking up to much time from their research in 1999
6. The first round of venture capital of $25 million was provided in 1999 by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital 5 years before it floated
7. Google incorporated in 1998
8. 30 million pages indexed in 1998
9. 1 billion pages indexed in 2000
10. Eric Schmidt named CEO in in 2001
11. Acquired Blogger in 2003
12. Adsense launched in 2003
13. Gmail launched in 2004
14. Google IPO in 2004
15. 8 billion pages indexed in in 2004
16. Acquired YouTube in 2006 for$1.65 billion
17. 1 Trillion pages indexed in in 2008
18. Android announced in 2007
19. Chrome launched in 2008
20. 1.8 million shares given to Stanford University for its PageRank Patent sold by Stanford in 2005 for $336 million
21. It currently runs over 1 million computer servers in data centers around the world
22. Google search handles over 1 billion searches per day
23. 7.2 billion daily page views
24. 87.8 billion monthly worldwide searches conducted on Google sites
25. Google’s global search market share is 85%
26. Daily visitors to Google is 620 million
27. Google.com’s worldwide ranking is number 1
28. Revenue in 2000 was $19 million
29. Profit in 200 was a loss of $14 million
30. In 2009 Google’s revenue was nearly $23 billion
31. In 2009 Google’s profit was $6.5 billion
32. 97% is the percentage of revenue from advertising
33. Stock price at its IPO in 2004 was$85
34. Stock price in 2010 was $535
35. Over 19,000 employees
36. 37% are research staff
37. 37% are sales staff
38. A ‘Noogler’ is a new person at Google
39. 45% of Google’s products are currently in Beta
40. YouTube market share is 39.4%
41. 270,000 words a minute are written on Blogger
42. 146 million Gmail users
43. Google analytics is used on 57% of the top 10,000 websites
44. 400,000 new Android devices areactivated every day
45. 100 million activated Android devices
46. 200,000 Apps available for the Android
47. 4.5 billion Apps have been installed from the Android Market
48. Google’s Android mobile operating system is the world’s leading smart phone platform surpassing Nokia and Apple with a 33% share
49. 33 million Android operating systems were shipped in the the fourth quarter of 2010
50. The Google Driverless car named the ‘Stanley’ won the DARPA Grand challenge and the $2 million in prize money from the US Department of Defense in 2005

14 facts about Indian education system

FACT I:
Just one out of nine children finishing school joins a college. India has one of the lowest higher education enrollment ratio of 11 per cent. In the US it is 83 per cent.

FACT 2:
To meet its target of increasing enrollment levels to 15 per cent in 2012, the Eleventh Plan estimates that India needs to invest Rs 2,26,410 crore. Yet it has set aside only Rs77,933 crore-just a fourth of the total needed.

FACT 3:
A recent ASSCoM-McKinsey study showed that only one out of Ten Indian students with degrees in humanities and one out of four engineering graduates are employable. So much for India’s boast of having one of the largest technical and scientific manpower reserves in the world.

FACT 4:
A study by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council showed that 90 per cent of the colleges and 70 per cent of the universities that the council graded were of middling or poor quality.

FACT 5:
Shortage of teachers was endemic with even the IITs reporting a 20 to 30 per cent shortfall in faculty.

FACT 6:
On an average most Indian universities revise their curricula only once in five to 10 yearsbut even then they get defeated in both letter and spirit.

FACT 7:
Over-regulation by the government and a multiplicity of agencies have seen higher education stagnate and corruption become institutionalized.

FACT 8:
In 50 years, only 44 private institutions were granted deemed university status by the University Grants Commission. In the last 5 years, it has granted that status to 49 more, leading to charges of impropriety.

FACT 9:
The shortage of good institutions has seen cut-off percentages for entry into good colleges soar to genius levels. This year’s qualifying marks for RCom (Hons) course in Delhi’s SRCC was 98.75 per cent.

FACT 10:
Studies show that the number of students committing suicide because of the pressure to perform well in secondary board exams is rising alarmingly.

FACT 11:
Indian students now spend $7 billion to go abroad and study in foreign universities because of the poor quality of education at home. Yet the government drags it feet overpermitting foreign universities to set up shop in India. Where in same cost we can successfully implement and run around 10 more IITs.

FACT 12:
The quality of school education hasn’t improved. A recent study found that in rural north India on an average day, there is no teaching activity in about half” of the primary schools

FACT 13:
The US currently accounts for over a third of the entire world’s output of articles in science and engineering. India, in contrast, accounts for less than 3 per cent of research papers published and in terms of citations barely 1 per cent.

FACT 14 :
Almost half of the country’s population is below 25 years. Almost 10 per cent of them or 12 crore are between the ages of 18 and 23. If they are equipped with both knowledge and skills, they could drive India’s entrepreneurial and Competitive spirit and make it into global power.

Why Bother?
Brilliant! It’s good to know what exactly India is missing out on because of all this apathy and sloth. Over a decade ago management guru Peter Drucker had declared: “The Knowledge Society will become far more competitive than any society we have yet known… there will be no poor countries, there will only be ignorant countries… thus the competitive position of every country, industry, institution . and individual will depend on the ability to harness and capitalize on knowledge.”


Now consider following graphic;

what government is doing for it,
on February 28 2008 a committee under the chairmanship os noted scientist, prof. Yashpal was set by HRD ministry to suggest ways to bring about considerable changes in higher education in India.

committee submitted its report on march 1 2009. it is available at this link.

recommendation:Setting up a National Commission for Higher Education & Research (NCHER) as a super-regulator replacing all UGC, AICTE n all.
developing IITs and IIMs as world-class universities,
a common GRE-type entrance exam for admission to universities
inviting the top 200 universities from abroad to set up shop in India
few suggestions to improve the working of universities.

are some of the key highlights of the final recommendations of the Yashpal committee on higher education.

Some more text direct copy paste from the report:-

For students
…..Currently, many students passing out from institutions of higher education do so without obtaining the kind of skills they really need to work in a real-world environment. Among the drawbacks many students face are lack of ability to analyze or solve problems, relate problems to different contexts, communicate clearly and have an integrated understanding of different branches of knowledge…..

…. the student is asked to face a question paper at the end of the year, or in some universities, at the end of the semester. This archaic examination system,…….., unfortunately does not really test the kind of skills they require to be successful in either the pursuit of pure theoretical knowledge or in practical real world situations…..

(The solution given in report is the first 2 points in can we change this article….)

….there must be a provision for student assessment of teachers, for the students can provide an experimental assessment of the quality of teaching….

For teachers…
…..It is also necessary to enhance the quality of teacher education within higher education. At present, Academic Staff Colleges are serving to provide refresher courses required by faculty to acquire eligibility for promotion…..

…..It should be mandatory for all universities to have a rich undergraduate programme and undergraduate students must get opportunities to interact with the best faculty.….

Well there are lot of more recommendation to reform our education system, I just want to say that, the point which I have mentioned in previous article(some of them) are not just problem of FAMT/ mumbai university but of whole nation and CHANGE is utmost important here.

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consider another story…

friends you spend 50000+ as your annual fee for your higher education, it is your right to get it most appropriate manner as it is a commodity n basic need today. unfortunately most of us INDIANS doesn’t even know/care what r our rights and what we deserve, n remain happy in our conservative world.

i just wanted to create some awareness through this article. i have asked some of teachers for changing there way of teaching n expressing with help of new IT techs.

i didn’t want to hurt anyone as there is nothing personal its all professional.

Amazing facts about Indian education history..

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

<>.The number system was invented by India. Aryabhatta was the scientist who invented the digit zero.

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

<>.The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.

<>.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.

<>.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 ).

<>.India has the second largest pool of scientists & engineers in the world.!!

<>. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.

5 of the most expensive weddings in history

Weddings are often a pretty expensive occasion in one’s life. Recent surveys suggest that the average UK wedding will cost in excess of £16,164, which by most people’s standards is a lot of money, but rightly so on one of the most important days of your life. With most of us pulling the stops out for our big day, it’s no surprise that the super rich in society go completely overboard with their spending. The trend for expensive weddings among the wealthy has seen spending go completely crazy.

Here are 5 weddings that are reported to be some of the most expensive in history:

5. Liza Minnelli and David Gest – Estimated cost of wedding – $4.2 million / £2.8 million

In March 2002, world famous actress Liza Manelli and (the not so famous) David Gest tied the knot, with a ceremony compared to the Grammy Awards. The wedding was held in front of 850 guests in the world famous Regent Hotel, New York. The guest list was made up of some of the biggest names in show business, with Michael Jackson even serving as the best man.

The couple were estimated to have spent $700,000 on flowers and $40,000 on cake. The couple split after 16 months, so it just goes to show, that you can’t buy love!

4. Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin: Estimated cost of wedding – $8 million / £5.2 million

In 2008 Wayne Rooney married his childhood sweetheart in a ceremony that saw 65 of their guests flown out to Genoa (Italy) on a private chartered flight. Upon arriving in Genoa the guests were treated to a masked ball aboard a $120 million yacht.

Guests were also given the opportunity to sample the delights of the five star hotel that the couple rented out before exchanging their vows in a 17th century villa and reception at a medieval abbey high above Portofino.

3. Prince William and Kate Middleton: Estimated cost of wedding – $34 million / £22 million

Prince William met Kate Middleton whilst at St.Andrews University; some say it was love at first site with the prince infatuated by the young Kate. In 2011 the young couple sealed the deal in a ceremony fit for a king (literally). Reports suggested that the couple lavishly spent over £520,000 (around $800,000) on flowers, which in a time of austerity was an extravagant demonstration of wealth.

The wedding took place in St. Paul’s cathedral in front of an estimated audience of 2 billion people!

2. Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia: Estimated cost of wedding – $60 million / £39 million

Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia aren’t what you would call household names but they both hail from some of the world’s richest Families. Vanisha is from a family of steel merchants who are reported to be one of the richest families on the planet. Invitations to the wedding were sent out via silver boxes, which included flight tickets and rooms at a Paris hotel.

There weren’t any mobile bars for hire at this wedding, it was strictly Crystal Champagne ($200 a bottle) and performances from the world famous Kylie Minogue and complimentary gift bags filled with jewels to make up.

1. Prince Charles and Lady Diana: Estimated cost of wedding – $110 million / £72 million

Prince Charles and Lady Diana was probably one of the most famous weddings of modern times, the marriage didn’t end in happiness as we all know, but the wedding stank of opulence. Like Prince William and Kate’s wedding, their wedding was held in St.Paul’s Cathedral and watched by viewers from across the world. Highlights of the wedding included a 5 ft wedding cake and a 20ft veil worn by Princess Diana.

Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They're 98% water!

When jellyfish are in the water, they can be a bit intimidating. Their tentacles can pack a painful electrical shock. However, once they wash up on shore, they are anything but intimidating.

It turns out that jellyfish are 98% water. Most are transparent and bell-shaped. If they end up on the beach, they will most likely evaporate in a few hours and mostly disappear.

Jellyfish also don’t have brains, bones or a heart. They do have rudimentary sensory nerves though.

Women speak about 20,000 words a day while men only speak 7,000

The stereotype is pervasive: women are talkative, men are not. Women love to share their feelings and talk things to death, while men are stoic and don’t feel the need to chat as much. It turns out that the basic fact behind this stereotype are true: women do speak more than men.


A lot more. Women have been found to speak about 20,000 words per day while men only speak about 7,000 words. That’s quite the difference. It turns out that women speak faster as well—sometimes twice as fast.

Having sex while sick can reduce a fever due to the sweat produced.

Everyone knows that sex is enjoyable. More than that, there are many other benefits to sex beyond just the fact that it is fun. One is that it can help with a fever. Sex works as a natural antihistamine that combats fever and even asthma.

There is a lengthy list of other health benefits as well. Women’s bodies produce more estrogen when they’re having sex making their hair shinier and their skin softer. Sex also burns calories and strengthens muscles.

It also sharpens senses and acts as a natural painkiller. Levels of the hormone oxytocin rise and release a deluge of endorphins. These endorphins calm pain that results from any number of maladies, from migraines to arthritis.

Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.

Cracking your knuckles (or any of your joints) can have therapeutic benefits. When you crack one of your joints you are pulling the bones that are connected at the joint apart from each other. This process stimulates your tendons, relaxes your muscles, and loosens your joints. Chiropractors do this for spinal joints when your back is sore and stiff, but you can do this on your own for your knuckles, toes, knees, neck, etc.

Unfortunately, there can be too much of a good thing. Cracking your knuckles will never lead to arthritis (despite what your mom keeps telling you), but scientists have discovered that it can cause tissue damage in the affected joints. Knuckle-cracking pulls your finger bones apart which stretches your ligaments. Too much stretching of your ligaments will cause damage to your fingers akin to the arm injuries sustained by a baseball pitcher who throws too many pitches. In addition to making your hand really sore, this ligament damage can also result in reduced grip strength.

How does this work? Your joints, the places in your body where you can bend, are where your bones intersect and are held together by ligaments. These joints are surrounded by a liquid called synovial fluid. When you stretch your ligaments by pulling the bones apart to crack your knuckles a gas in the synovial fluid escapes and turns into a bubble. This process is called cavitation. Cavitation ends when the bubble eventually bursts, producing that popping sound we know and love. After that, your joints won't be able to crack for another 25-30 minutes while the gas gets reabsorbed into the synovial fluid.

100 Interesting Facts

1. Refrigerated rubber bands last longer than at room temperature. So do apples, apples can last up to 10 times longer refrigerated.
2. Regulation golf balls have 336 dimples.
3. The Mona Lisa doesn’t have eyebrows.
4. Honey Is the only food that doesn’t spoil.
5. Thanks to you and others in various corners in all countries around the world, these Interesting Facts pages have now been viewed 2.4 million times. That’s awesome!
6. Why are private sector psychiatrists in the U.S trading their cozy lives for 4 years in the U.S Army ? For the $272,000.00 Sign on bonus currently being offered.
7. The automatic popup bread toaster was patented before the bread slicing machine. 1919 and 1928. That’s right, people sliced their own bread for the toaster for almost a decade before sliced bread was sold.
8. Meteorites were very important to ancient Egyptians, they created jewelry from meteorites by hammering it into shape making beads and other designs. The jewelry was often buried with loved ones.
9. After spending 17 years underground, 2013 is the year the Cicada bug is expected to emerge by the billions on the east coast of the United States. Some estimate trillions will arrive.
10. The worlds largest yacht is 590 feet (approximately 197 yards) long and 94,000 horsepower.
11. The restaurant ‘White Castle’ is Americas oldest and 1st hamburger chain.
12. Mystery solved! 9 cases with 12 bottles in each case of 100 year old historic whiskey was found in the walls of a mansion during a renovation with the whiskey bottles still full. The cases were stored in the living room but when later checked discovered 52 bottles appraised at over $102,000 were now empty. DNA from the mouth of the bottles pointed directly to the 62 year old caretaker who has denied the accusations.
13. A Jet Blue flight was grounded and placed out of service after a woman spots a 4 inch scorpion between her legs. The scorpion reportedly crawled from between her legs to under the seat while the flight continued to it’s destination where it was then placed out of service.
14. Vaejovis Brysoni is the name given to the latest species of scorpion discovered by biologists. The scorpion was named in part after the individual who originally found the specimen in February 2013 (Robert Bryson Jr.) The scorpion was found in the Santa Catalina mountains of Arizona.
15. In January of 2013 security officials at O’Hare International airport in Chicago found 18 human heads still covered in skin. In 2010 an Arkansas airport found 60 human heads and pieces of heads. Both were in route to medical facilities but had errors in the paperwork. Weird!
16. In February 2013 a komodo dragon said to be approximately 2 meters (6 – 6.5 feet) long wondered into an office and attacked two men with it’s razor sharp teeth leaving them injured with stitches and in the hospital.
17. In 1938, Time Magazine chose Adolf Hitler for man of the year.
18. Twelve people have walked on the moon.
19. Other than the Earth, the moon is the only other known natural astrological object ever walked on.
20. Scientists voiced concern in 2012 about how radiation may be affecting humans after a recent finding of mutant butterflies in Japan with abnormal legs, eyes, wings and other mutations were discovered. The mutations were caused by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear accident which was triggered by a major tsunami in March 2011. The tsunami was a direct effect of an earthquake.
21. Humans and giraffes both have seven vertebrae bones in the neck. It’s not unusual for a mammal to have 7 vertebra bones in the neck but it’s interesting that the long neck of a full grown giraffe has the same amount.
22. The active ingredient in most toothpastes is called sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride can be lethal, young children using regular toothpaste with this ingredient should be monitored. Even swallowing small amounts can cause stomach problems or worse.
23. Over 3 million people globally every month search for something online with the words interesting facts in it according to the most popular search engine.
24. There are no land snakes in New Zealand. It’s part of New Zealand’s bio security to keep all snakes out and if a person is aware of a snake, by law it must be reported.
25. New Zealand is free of heartworm disease and rabies.
26. Buttermilk does not contain any butter.
27. Did you know Disneyland does not sell chewing gum? Walt Disney did not want guests inconvenienced by stepping on gum purchased in the park.
28. Each year Disneyland uses over 5,000 gallons of paint to maintain the clean appearance of the park.
29. George Washington died on December 14, 1799.
30. Giraffes can go without water longer than a camel. That’s wild!
31. The person reading this is intelligent, interesting and unique. Flattery is alright as long as we don’t inhale!
32. January 30, 1933 was the day the words Hi yo silver! Away! were first heard as the lone ranger debuts on radio channel WXYZ of Detroit.
33. Many people who read the word yawn or yawning begin to feel the urge to yawn.
34. The 2nd president of the United States (John Adams) and 3rd president of the United States (Thomas Jefferson) both died within just a few hours apart of each other on the same exact day of July 4th 1826. They are the only two presidents to die on the same day of the same year. It’s true!
35. When the Titanic departed from port it was documented to have carried approximately 1000 loaves of bread, 86,000 pounds of meat, 40,000 eggs and 36,000 apples to feed the passengers and crew on the 7 day voyage. Now those are some interesting facts!
36. Dogs can have a fatal reaction to eating chocolate. Chocolate contains a bitter alkaloid called Theobromine also known as Xantheose and that’s the active ingredient that’s bad for the dog. If you’ve read all the interesting facts to this point you’re awesome!
37. For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees fahrenheit or 30 degrees celsius.
38. The largest milk producing country by volume in the whole world is India.
39. It is a fact that the first game of chess has been traced back to have originated in northern India. Like other 1,000+ year old games, it would have been played differently than todays rules. It’s thought that todays rules have been around since sometime in the 1400′s A.D.
40. In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service has an employees handbook for the collections division unit. Here’s the interesting part, in it are instructions which guide employees on how to collect taxes after a nuclear war. Kinda scary!
41. If you are severely scared of going to the dentist or having dental work, you may actually have a phobia called odontophobia.
42. Almonds are members of the rose flower family or rosaceae family. The peach is also a member of the rose family.
43. The tallest girl in the world ever recorded was 8 feet 2 inches tall and died at the young age of 17.
44. The average human with a full head of hair contains between 85,000 to 150,000 hairs.
45. Jupiter is the largest planet in the earths solar system. I should’ve known that one.
46. Squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they’ve hidden are. Useless, Hahaha.
47. Did you know the first bullet proof vest and windshield wiper blades were both invented by women? Cool!
48. Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster. Weird!
49. Only humans cry because of feelings. Awesome!
50. Mohammad is the most common birth name in the world. There’s only 54 moreinteresting facts on this page.
51. It takes about 7 minutes for the average person to fall asleep. If you’ve read all the interesting facts to this point you’re amazing!
52. You can give change for a dollar in 293 different coin variations. Good luck!
53. About 1 out of every 2 million people will die by falling out of bed. Be careful, not funny. Most who will die this way are either very young children or elderly people.
54. The construction on the Parisian Notre Dame Cathedral began in 1015 A.D and it took over 400 years to complete, It was completed in 1439 A.D. It’s a well known historic Roman catholic church in Paris.
55. If the human stomach doesn’t produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks it will totally digest it’s self. Weird!
56. 75% of the world’s population wash themselves in the shower from the top to the bottom. Head first, feet last people.
57. There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year. A leap year has 31,622,400 seconds. Amazing!
58. Approximately one fifth of all the publications from Japan are comic books.
59. Did you know a slug has not only one nose but four? What a lot of people call a nose on a slug is actually a breathing pore called a pneumostome.
60. Four out of five people over 100 years old are women. Interesting!
61. The price of the Titanic cost about $7 million to build and the price of the Titanic movie was about $200 million to make. Unbelievable!
62. It’s true! There is only one metal that’s in liquid form at room temperature and that’s Mercury.
63. When water freezes it expands by 10%.
64. The only animal with four knees is the elephant.
65. Birth control pills designed for humans will also work for a gorilla. Now that’s Strange!
66. If you have a deep genuine fear of the number 13, you may have Paraskevidekatriaphobia also called Friggatriskaidekaphobia or Triskaidekaphobia.
67. A mid-sized car launched today generates only an estimated 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago. Awesome!
68. Stopping a supertanker which is fully loaded and travels at a normal speed needs about 20 minutes to stop completely.
69. A cat’s ear has a total of thirty two muscles.
70. The average person laughs 15 times per day. Hahaha!
71. The eye of an ostrich is larger than it’s brain.
72. A person eats around 60,000 pounds worth of food during his life which is the equivalent of six elephants. Incredible!
73. Ants can pull about 30 times their own weight and lift about 50 times their own weight.
74. A lion can mate more than 50 times in one day. Huh!
75. Did you know, you cannot fold a 8.5″ x 11″ or smaller piece of paper in half more than 7 times. Try it! The MythBusters guys on the Discovery channel folded a piece of paper more than 7 times but it was a really large sheet of paper.
76. Oh no, there’s only 28 more interesting facts to go on this page.
77. More people are killed from donkeys in a year than planes.
78. Most snowflakes form with 6 tips or branches. Generally, the colder it is when the snowflake is formed the sharper and more defined the tips will be.
79. Lung cancer… Thats how the cigarette company Marlboro’s first owner died. Hmmm
80. Snails can sleep for up to 3 years.
81. You cannot think of an English word to rhyme with the word month because there isn’t one.
82. If an infant becomes blind soon after they’re born they will still almost always see images in their dreams, but infants born with blindness will most likely never have dreams with images. People who were born blind do still have very emotionally intense dreams which include hearing, smells, feeling and taste. Now that’s an interesting fact about dreams.
83. It is against the law in the state of Kentucky to marry a man more than 3 times. Old law.
84. In the state of Kentucky it is against the law to carry an ice cream in your back pocket. Old law.
85. On December 16th 1811 the mighty Mississippi river began to flow backwards due to a powerful earthquake.
86. Fires in the forest have been documented to move much faster up hill than down hill.
87. Did you know that your brain has no pain receptors or pain fibers and the brain it’s self cannot feel? Your brain cannot even feel pain. Although headaches are still not all the way understood, one reason it’s believed you feel headaches is because the skull is surrounded by what’s called meninges or blood vessels which do have pain receptors.
88. Human brains are estimated to be 70 – 75% h2o.
89. Approximately 1 out of every 50,000 people who visit this website send us an email about interesting facts. We enjoy reading them and sometimes use them, thank you.
90. Most people shed between 50 to 100 hairs every day. The question is, where do they go?
91. With mammals, no animal has a longer pregnancy term than that of the african elephant which is documented at an average of 22 months.
92. The Frilled Shark (Chlamydoselachus anguineus) may have a gestation period “pregnancy” of up to 3.5 years or around 42 months.
93. Some sharks lose over 30,000 teeth in a lifetime.
94. In 2008 the journal of Fish Biology confirmed through DNA testing the 2nd case of a virgin female aquarium shark having a pup. This is known as asexual reproduction or parthenogenesis.
95. During world war 2 the Oscar award given out by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was made of wood because most common metals were very scarce.
96. Breast fed babies score slightly higher on mental development tests than ones on formula.
97. People who apply sunscreen to themselves generally apply 50-75% less than the recommended amount according to the Archives of Dermatology.
98. The color of a hens earlobes will usually determine the color of the egg shell. Farmers know hens with red or darker colored earlobes are most likely to lay brown eggs and hens with lighter colored or white earlobes will usually lay white eggs.
99. There are 722 miles of subway track in New York city.
100. Hartsdale New York has a pet cemetery with more than 12,000 pets buried.

60 of the world’s happiest facts

1. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.

2. If you fake laugh long enough you’ll start to really laugh, really, really hard.

3. The book cover to the prize winning short story collection,Spellbound, was chosen because author, Joel Willans, bought his wife’s engagement ring with poker winnings.

4. The Beatles used the word “love” 613 times throughout their career.

5. The chances of you (as opposed to someone else) being born is about 1 in 40 million.

6. Every year, millions of trees grow thanks to squirrels forgetting where they buried their nuts.

7. On the day of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. had a pillow-fight in his motel room.

8. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We’re all made of star dust.

9. Cancer death rates are down 20% in past 20 years.

10. The miles travelled by the Apollo 11 crew to the moon were greater than every single exploration mission to the New World combined.

11. Penguins only have one mate their entire life and “propose” by giving their mate a pebble.

12. There’s an animal called a Dik Dik. And it’s the cutest antelope you’ll ever see.

13. Despite high infant mortality rates and lower life expectancies, not one of your direct ancestors died childless.

14. Cuddling releases Oxytocin which helps speed healing and recovery from physical wounds.

15. Otters hold hands when sleeping so they don’t drift away from each other.

16. Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.

17. There’s a type of jellyfish that lives forever.

18. Wayne Allwine (the voice of Mickey Mouse) and Russi Taylor (the voice of Minnie Mouse) were married in real life.

19. We now have less crime, a lower death rate and longer life expectancy than at any other time in human history.

20. The clitoris has 8000 nerve fibres, double that of the penis, and is the only organ in the body, which has evolved purely for pleasure.

21. Butterflies can taste with their feet.

22. For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the most amazing day of their life.

23. When you die, your body decomposes, and the atoms that contained “you” are recycled into Earth to be used again.

24. Every year the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulip bulbs to Canada to thank them for their aid in the Second World War.

25. Rats giggle when you tickle them. Their voices are so high-pitched you need special equipment to hear them, but when you do, their laughs are immediately evident.

26. Sea horses mate for life, are completely faithful and travel together by holding on to each others tails.

27. The guy at the end of this video exists.

28. If you say “my cocaine” you sound like Michael Caine saying his own name.

29. Male puppies, when playing with female puppies, will intentionally let the female win.

30. The next Star Wars will not be directed by George Lucas.

31. It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.

32.The kingdom of Bhutan use ‘gross national happiness’ as a key national indicator.

33. The majority of European children born in 2013 will live to see the year 2100.

34. Cows have best friends.

35. Neurologically speaking, seeing somebody else smile actually makes you happier.

36. Every human being spent about half an hour as a single cell.

37. There are people, ombrophiles, who have a passionate love for rain.

38. Once your brain realizes that you’re dying, it releases DMT, one of the most powerful known psychedelics. This dilates your perception of time and allowing you to live inside your own mind for hours or even days.

39. No matter how long you live there will always be an amazing new food for you try.

40. A group of porcupines is called a prickle.

41. Aside from a sample in a lab, Smallpox is completely extinct. No one else will ever die from it again.

42. A pig’s orgasms last thirty minutes.

43. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

44. Sloths only leave their tree once a week, to pee and poo.

45. Spinner dolphins sleep in pairs, one with the left hemisphere asleep, the other with the right. They each keep watch with one eye and half a brain. They are known to sleep-mate for life.

46. At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.

47. Cows produce the most milk when listening to the song Everybody Hurts by REM.

48. Somewhere, someone is losing their virginity right now.

49. If you spell out numbers in order, the first time you get to the letter “a” is at one-thousand.

50. We’ve all been here forever. Every bit of matter we see has been here since the beginning of time and it always will be.

51. A monkey was once tried and convicted for smoking a cigarette in South Bend, Indiana.

52. Happiness is a skill. You can learn it and it’s not hard.

53. Except when breeding, the Common Swift spend their entire lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in flight. They drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing

54. Baby rabbits are called kittens.

55. Baby puffins are called pufflings.

56. Costa Rica is statistically the happiest nation on Earth.

57. Worms communicate by snuggling.

58. 2013 is the first year since 1987 that consists for four different digits.

59. With our horseless carriages, flying robots, space travel, long-distance communication at the speed of light, cloning, lasers, connection to people all over the world, we are living inthe future people dreamed of.

60. If you blend a sea sponge, it will re-form back into a sea sponge.

Did you know......... some interesting facts

A zebra is white with black stripes.

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

Hummingbirds are the only animal that can also fly backwards.

Insects do not make noises with their voices. The noise of bees, mosquitoes and other buzzing insects is caused by rapidly moving their wings.

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

The word "listen" contains the same letters as the word "silent".

The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.

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

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

The whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.

A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.

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

'Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words.

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

Phobatrivaphobia is a fear of trivia about phobias !!

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

A snail can sleep for 3 years. ( wow, lucky chap eh ? )

The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start

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.

Twenty-Four-Karat Gold is not pure gold since there is a small amount of copper in it. Absolutely pure gold is so soft that it can be molded with the hands.

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

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

55 per cent of people yawn within 5 minutes of seeing someone else yawn. Reading about yawning makes most people yawn. hello, zzzzz zzzz ?

MORE INTERESTING AMAZING FACTS..........

The average lead pencil can draw a line that is almost 35 miles long or you can write almost 50,000 words in English .....  

It is really bad to a smoke cigarette..

The Taj Mahal is one of the wonders of the world.

Chocolate kills dogs! . A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue! 

The world's tallest woman is Sandy Allen. She is 2.35m (7 ft. 7 in.).

Socrates became famous for asking questions about almost everything !!

The mother of all European languages is Sanskrit, which is considered the most suitable language for computer software - Amazing India facts

The earliest maps were made by the Babylonians about 2300 B.C.

Cell Phone Etiquette - It is considered rude to talk aloud while on the cell-phone

The greenhouse effect causes trouble by raising the temperature of the planet.

Asiatic Lion Facts

Asiatic Lion, also known as the Indian Lion, is found only in the Gir National Park of India. The scientific name of the lion is Panthera Leo persica. Asiatic lions are generally known to move around in groups, known as 'Prides'. There can be upto three males in a pride, however; only one amongst them dominates the group. The male members of a pride do not take part in hunting unless and until the prey is very strong or aggressive. Most of the hunting is done by the female members. Given below are some interesting facts about the Indian lions. Check out some fast facts regarding the Asiatic lion …

Kingdom:	Animalia
Scientific name:	Panthera Leo persica
Class:	Mammalia
Family:	Felidae
Species:	P. Leo
Subspecies:	P. l. persica
Weight:	Male: Approximately 150 kg to 250 kg Female: Approximately 120 kg to 180 kg
Length (head and body):	Male: 1.7 m to 2.5 m Female: 1.4 m to 1.75 m
Length (tail):	70-105cm
Shoulder Height:	Male: 1 m to 1.23 m Female: 80 cm to 107 cm
Age of Maturity:	Male: 5 years Female: 4 years
Mating Season:	All year round
Gestation Period:	100-119 days
Birth Interval:	18 to 26 months
Lifespan:	16 to 18 years
Typical Diet:	Deer, antelope, wild boar, buffalo

10 Amazing Facebook Facts You Probably Don't Know

The average user has 130 friends 

Are you worried about your popularity? The average number of friends on Facebook is 130, and women tend to have somewhat more than men. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people only interact regularly with 4 to 7 people.




So, what's YOUR number?






Over 25% of users have already been dumped via Facebook 

A June 2010 survey of 1,000 Facebook users -- 70% of whom were male -- found that 25% had been "dumped" via Facebook (via their significant other updating his or her relationship status).




Twenty-one percent of those surveyed said they would end a relationship by changing their Facebook relationship statuses to "single." While worrisome, the survey does show the majority of people do not split up via Facebook.




PD: This photo is from a genuine FB status.






Facebook doesn't allow breastfeeding photos 

Facebook, the popular social networking website, provoked a squall of maternal wrath when it yanked photos of breastfeeding babies that women had posted on their personal profiles because it deemed them a little too revealing. This, by the way, from a website that allows photos of women in thongs and bikinis and of couples making out; it has even accepted paid advertising for a dating website that featured a topless model. (The topless ad was taken down after angry women noted the hypocrisy.)




In response to the terse notices alerting mothers that they were violating Facebook's decency policy, "lactivists" responded with a virtual nurse-in; 11,000 women posted photos of themselves breastfeeding and/or updated their profiles to read: "Hey, Facebook. Breastfeeding Is Not Obscene!"




The pro-breastfeeding group has attracted over 250,000 members.



Facebook causes 1 in 5 Divorces 

It used to be the tell-tale lipstick on the collar. Then there were the give-away texts that spelled the death knell for many marriages. But now one in five divorces involve the social networking site Facebook, according to a new survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.




A staggering 80 per cent of divorce lawyers have also reported a spike in the number of cases that use social media for evidence of cheating.






Al Pacino was the first ‘face' on Facebook 

Remember that sad-looking blue guy on Facebook's homepage who used to stare you down every time you went to log in? They did away with him in 2007, so if you were late to the social networking party, then you probably have absolutely no idea what we're talking about. Anyway according to David Kirkpatrick's The Facebook Effect , it turns out that that guy in the logo, created by Zuckerberg's friend and classmate Andrew McCollum, was none other than a young Al Pacino “covered with a fog of ones and zeros — the elementary components of digital media.” Crazy, right?






36% of users check Facebook, Twitter or texts after sex 

Lighting a cigarette after sex? That's soooo last season.




An October 2009 study by Retrevo suggested that social networks are becoming an increasingly important part of young people's lives. Among under-35s, 36% admitted to "tweeting, texting and checking Facebook after sex." Forty percent of respondents admitted to doing so while driving, 64% said they do so at work, and 65% use these communication channels while on vacation.






Over 350million people suffer from Facebook Addiction Disorder 

Facebook Addiction Disorder (FAD) is a term introduced by US phychologists for those who are addicted to Facebook and their life is really affected by their uncontrolled activities on Facebook. The most common effects are the loss of productivity, the inability to concentrate, the superficiality of friendships as well as isolation in the extreme cases.




It has been said that approximately 350 million people are suffering from the disorder.






Facebook users have lower grades than non-users 

According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, college students who use the 800 million–member social network have significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than those who do not.




The study, made in 2009, surveyed 219 undergraduate and graduate students and found that GPAs of Facebook users typically ranged a full grade point lower than those of nonusers — 3.0 to 3.5 for users versus 3.5 to 4.0 for their non-networking peers. It also found that 79% of Facebook members did not believe there was any link between their GPA and their networking habits.






Burger King gave away free burgers to users who unfriended people on Facebook 

In January 2009, an advertising campaign from Burger King titled “WHOPPER Sacrifice” rewarded Facebook users a free “Angry Whopper” for publicly deleting 10 friends, who would then receive a blunt message informing they were deleted for a free hamburger. The campaign, conceived by Burger King agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky and executed by Refresh Partners, used the tag line “Friendship Is Strong, but The Whopper Is Stronger.”




At press time the application had been downloaded more than 55,000 times and over 250,000 ‘friends' were sacrificed.






A man was arrested for openly asking his 13-year-old daughter for sex over Facebook 

On perhaps one of the worst crimes perpetrated in Facebook, a Pennsylvania father was arrested for allegedly asking his teen daughter for sex over Facebook. John Forehand, 39, referred to himself as "Bad Daddy" in the online correspondence with his 13 year-old daughter, in which he openly propositioned her and made explicit sexual suggestions. Forehand told his daughter he had been having "inappropriate" dreams about her, and wrote to her, "I'll take very good care of my little girl."




The girl told her mother about the inappropriate Facebook messages, and she then alerted the police. The police captured Forehand by tricking him into coming to what he believed would be a meeting with his daughter. How sick is that?

Interesting facts about girls

1. Even if a girl likes a guy, she wont ever be the first one to stay it. It always be the boy who needs to start the talking. 
2. A girl will always be soft at heart and can determine the depth of relationship by the first kiss, so when you are into her make it happen.
3. Boys, if a girl ask you who she like and she say ” nobody”, it means that she is 1% telling the truth, 5% are laying and 94% saying nobody because that somebody is you. 
4. Girls love confidence in guy so be confident and tell her bout your feeling for her without waste the time. 
5. If she kept you smiling since day one, keep her.
6. Girls love guys praising about them, so praise about their looks, appearance and choice of clothing, chicks dig it. 
7. If a girl has a wall up it is because it was built, brick by brick, lie after lie, heartbreak after heartbreak. 
8. When a woman is not happy and she yells at you, she still cares, if she is silent you already lost her. 
9. The hardest thing for a girl is do to is to let go of the one guy she would do anything for. 
10. If she is given to a second chance, she is real keeper, now be a man and show her why she would be with you. 
11. For a girl one romantic song is all it takes to bring back thousand of memories of her. 
12. When a girl sees you, she immediately things about what you will look like with your shirt off. She is just too shy to say it.
13. Girls thing it is sweet when you to the household chore like making dinner etc. 
14. When you break a girls heart, she still it when you run into her few years ago. 
15. When a girl cries, just let her cry, do not freaked out by it either. Give her a tight hug and just be there for her. 
16. If a girl and her friend are having a good conversation, it is not a good time to interrupt them. 
17. When you play with your girl’s hair, you are actually making her fall for you more and more, they just love it. 
18. Girls like a lot of talking and foreplay before making love to their partners.
19. If you find a stuffed animal or painting in girl’s room. do not mock it. she will take irrevocable offense. 
20. Never say a girl you love her if you do not mean it, it can cause serious crises in your life.