Friday, 6 July 2007
Did you know? I didn't...
Spent like 4 Hours reading useless trivia off the internet today morning. And my cousin came for a surprise visit from Malaysia. How boring can my day get? Sorry i had to cancel a meeting today coz of my cousin. So here's some trivia!
Did You Know...
That the measurement for the speed and movement direction of a computer mouse is called a mickey? One mickey (mouse) is approximately 1/200th of an inch.
GIYD : "Google It You Dumbass" (pronounced "GUIDE")
GIYF : "Google Is Your Friend", or "Google It You Fucker"
GLOG : "Go Look On Google"
PICNIC : "Problem In Chair Not In Computer"
The real name of "the" Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays he is known as Bill Gates (III). By converting the letters of his current name to the ASCII-values and adding his (III), you get the following:
B 66
I 73
L 76
L 76
G 71
A 65
T 84
E 69
S 83
I 1
I 1
I 1
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666 !!!
Some might ask, "How did Bill Gates get so powerful?" Coincidence? Or just the beginning of mankind's ultimate and total enslavement???
Before you decide, consider the following:
M S - D O S 6 . 3 1
77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666
W I N D O W S 9 5
87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666
Coincidence? You decide..
The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is a a pneumoconiosis caused by the inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust. The only other word with the same amount of letters is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses, its plural.
One out of every eight letters used in written English is an e.
Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere, therein, herein.
The Old English word for "sneeze" is "fneosan."
The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows."
The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels.
If you can see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun. If you don't, you can't see it.
If you need to remember pi, just count the letters in each word in the sentence: "May I have a large container of coffee?" If you get the coffee and are polite and say "Thank you," you get two more decimal places. [3.141592653...]
The largest prime number is 13,395 digits long; more than the number of atoms in the universe.
2 and 5 are the only primes that end in 2 or 5.
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
Almost half the bones in your body are in your hands and feet
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
If each count were one second long, it would take about twelve days to count to a million and thirty-two years to count to a billion.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
The two lines that connect your top lip to the bottom of your nose are known as the philtrum.
According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, it is possible to go slower than light and faster than light, but it is impossible to go at the speed of light. Also, there is a particle called a tackyon which is supposed to go faster than light. This means if you fire a tackyon beam, it travels before you fire it!
During conscription for WW II, there were nine documented cases of men with three testicles.
The first Marvel Comics super hero was the Human Torch.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light.
Dogs and humans are the only animals with prostates.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Rhinos are in the same family as horses, and are thought to have inspired the myth of the unicorn.
Kiwi birds are blind, they hunt by smell.
Dolphins are the only other animals besides humans that get pleasure out of sex. They are also the only other animals that have sex for reasons other than reproduction.
All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from just one female wild golden hamster found with a litter of 12 young in Syria in 1930. The species had been named in 1839 when a single animal was found, again in Syria, but it had net been seen by scientist for nearly a century. Selective breeding has now produced several color varieties.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.
A group of kangaroos is called a mob.
A group of ravens is called a murder.
A group of owls is called a parliament.
The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother's womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.
A baby eel is called an elver, a baby oyster is called a spat.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
The penguins that inhabit the tip of South America are called jackass penguins.
It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A rhinoceros's horn is made of hair.
Starfish don't have brains.
Shrimps' hearts are in their heads.
A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.
A penguin only has sex twice a year.
A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
A pig's penis is shaped like a corkscrew.
Many species of bird copulate in the air. In general, a couple will fly to a very high altitude, and then drop. During their descent, the birds mate. Sometimes the couple gets too involved and SPLAT!
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit
The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
When a giraffe's baby is born it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
Crickets hear through their knees
Swans are the only birds with penises.
One way to tell seals and sea lions apart is that, sea lions have external ears and testicles
Some female hyenas have a pseudo-penis
Horses cannot vomit.
Rabbits cannot vomit.
Goat's eyes have rectangular pupils.
Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time
Four people played Darth Vader: David Prowse was his body, James Earl Jones did the voice, Sebastian Shaw was his face and a fourth person did the breathing.
During his entire life, Vincent Van Gogh sold exactly one painting, Red Vineyard at Arles.
Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."
TVs 'Bananas in Pajamas' are played by women.
The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off, could throw a pickup truck over a mile.
The quartz crystal in your wristwatch vibrates 32,768 times a second
The bread slots in a toaster are toast wells.
There are 1,929,770,126,028,800 different color combinations possible on a Rubik's Cube
In order for a deck of cards to be mixed up enough to play with properly, it should be shuffled at least seven times
The bubbles in Guiness Beer sink to the bottom rather than float to the top like all other beers. No one knows why
Nearly 50% of all bank robberies take place on Friday
Coca-Cola contains neither coca nor cola.
Pepsi originally contained pepsin, therefore the name!
The YKK on the zipper of your Levis stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the worlds largest zipper manufacturer
Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.
The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
The average human's heart will beat 3000 million times in their lifetime.
The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
You burn 26 calories in a one minute kiss.
There are 26 calories in a Hershey Kiss.
The average human body contains enough:
Iron to make a 3 inch nail
Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog
Carbon to make 900 pencils
Potassium to fire a toy cannon
Fat to make 7 bars of soap
Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads
Water to fill a ten gallon tank
If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
Seventy percent of the dust in your home consists of shed human skin.
If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds recieved in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
A large flawless emerald is worth more than a similarly large flawless diamond.
Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave
The allele for six fingers and toes is dominant in humans.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
M&M's were developed so that soldiers could eat candy without getting their fingers sticky.
The wheat that produces a one-pound loaf of bread requires two tons of water to grow.
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them use to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."