Comparison and competition steals away joy, peace and happiness

Don't compare your life,skills and belongings with others.It takes away peace, happiness and joy 

Such a beautiful message... worth reading!!!

I was jogging this morning and I noticed a person about half a km ahead. 

I could guess he was running a little slower than me and that made me feel good, I said to myself I will try catch up with him.

So I started running faster and faster. Every block, I was gaining on him a little bit. 

After just a few minutes I was only about 100 feet behind him, so I really picked up the pace and pushed myself. I was determined to catch up with him.

Finally, I did it! I caught up and passed him. Inwardly I felt very good. "I beat him". 

Of course, he didn't even know we were racing. 

After I passed him, I realized I had been so focused on competing against him that .....

I had missed my turn to my house,

I had missed the focus on my inner peace,

I missed to see the beauty of greenery around, 

I missed to do my inner soul searching meditation, 

and 

in the needless hurry stumbled and slipped twice or thrice and might have hit the sidewalk and broken a limb.

It then dawned on me, isn't that what happens in life when we focus on competing with 

co-workers, neighbours, 

friends,  family, trying to outdo them or trying to prove that we are more successful or more important and in the bargain 

we miss on our happiness within our own surroundings?

We spend our time and energy running after them and we miss out on our own paths to our given destination. 

The problem with unhealthy competition is that it's a never ending cycle.

There will always be somebody ahead of you, 

someone with a better job, 

nicer car, 

more money in the bank, 

more education, 

a prettier wife, 

a more handsome husband, 

better behaved children, 

better circumstances and 

better conditions etc.

 

But one important realisation is that 

You can be the best that you can be, when you are not competing with anyone.

Some people are insecure because they pay too much attention to 

what others are, 

where others are going, 

wearing and driving, what others are talking.  

Take whatever you have, 

the height, the weight and personality.  

Accept it and realize, that you are blessed. Stay focused and live a healthy life. 

*There is no competition in Destiny. Each has his own.*

Comparison AND Competition  is the thief of JOY. 

It kills the Joy of Living your Own Life.

*Run your own Race that leads to Peaceful, Happy, Steady Life.*

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Amazing fact: The ketchup word come from Indonesia

The word "ketchup" in English comes from the Indonesian word kecap, which is a sweet soy sauce.

Amazing fact: Adult male orangutans found in wild in Indonesia

Adult male orangutans, found in the wild only on the Indonesia islands of Borneo and Sumatra, are said to be eight times stronger than a human.

Amazing fact: The pepper was introduced in Indonesia

Pepper was introduced to Indonesia's Sumatra and Java from south India around 600 B.C. Black pepper is the result of picking unripened fruits and drying them in the sun, while white pepper comes from larger fruits left on the vine until ripe.

Amazing fact: Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia

Jakarta, which was called Batavia by the Dutch, is the capital of Indonesia and is the 13th largest city in the world.

Amazing fact: The island of Sumatra

The island of Sumatra was originally known as Swarnadwipa ("Island of Gold"). It was Marco Polo who corrupted the name to Sumatra in his 1292 report on his journey through the Indonesian archipelago.

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Amazing fact : Sedena is an icy solar system

Sedna is an icy solar system body that is so distant, it takes 11,400 years to orbit the Sun. It resides roughly 3 times further out from the Sun than Neptune, and is two thirds the size of Pluto. It is one of the most distant objects known in the solar system, and although Sedna is covered in ice, it appears almost as red as Mars

Amazing fact: Comet always have irregular shapes

Comets always have irregular shapes due to the fact that they have low mass so they cannot become spherical under their own gravity.

Amazing fact: Planetesimal theory

Planetesimal theory is the theory most accepted in explaining the origin of Earth. According to this theory Earth originated from a giant cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula.

 

Amazing fact: The heat inside the volcano went on Jupiter moon

The heat inside the volcano vents on Jupiter's moon Io can be 1/3rd the temperature of the surface of the Sun

Amazing fact: One day on Pluto

One Day on Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth

Amazing fact: The Blackeye Galaxy

M64, The Blackeye Galaxy's outer section of it's galactic disk is rotating in the opposite direction to the inner section. Friction at the boundary where the opposite travelling gas and dust clouds meet, causes intense star birth

Amazing fact: Coronal mass ejection 

A coronal mass ejection, an extremely powerful eruption on the surface of the Sun can be so violent that it can create a solar tsunami. Waves radiate outwards from the CME like a stone thrown into a pond. These waves are made of magnetism and million degree plasma, and rise up higher than the Earth itself as they race out across the Sun's surface at 560,000mph

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Amazing fact: How many gallons of blood kidney clean

In a lifetime, the human kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.

Amazing fact: Human body composed water

The human body is composed of 80% of water.

Amazing fact: Nails and corneas do not receive oxygen from blood

Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the body that do not receive oxygen from blood.

Amazing fact: The ear never stop growing

The ears never stop growing through lifetime.

Amazing fact: The Human Tongue

The human tongue has 10,000 taste buds.

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Amazing fact: Male Darwin frog

The male Darwin's frog keeps his tadpoles in his vocal sac until they develop into frogs. He then coughs them up.

Amazing fact: Male moth can smell females moths

Male moths can smell female moths from over seven miles away. They do not have noses but detect odor molecules using their antennae.

Amazing fact: Dragon fly

The dragonfly has not changed over the last 300 million years.

Amazing fact: Save a Spider day

Save a Spider Day, celebrated on March 14th, encourages people to appreciate spiders, who eat lots of insects that can spread disease.

Amazing fact: The world smallest mammals

The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.

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Amazing fact: TYPEWRITER is the longest

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

Amazing fact: The original nickname of Google

The original nickname of Google was BackRub due to the backlink technology used to determine site importance but eventually 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 signify the large quantities of information for people that it would provide.

Amazing fact: how many USD Mike markkula spend on one third apple computer

In 1977, VC Mike Markkula spent USD$250,000 to buy one-third of Apple Computer. He was also CEO from 1981-83.

Amazing fact: In 1950s computer referred what❓

In the 1950s computers were commonly referred to as "electronic brains".

Amazing fact: star-step effect diagonal line of computer

The stair-step effect that can be seen in diagonal lines of some computer graphics is called 'the jaggies'.

Amazing fact: The three founder of apple Inc

All the three founders of Apple Inc - Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne - worked at Atari before creating Apple.

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Amazing fact: pine cone can be used to forecasts the weather

You can use pine cones to forecast the weather: The scales will close when rain is on the way.

Amazing fact: How fog are created ? 

In order for fog to be created the difference between temperature and dew point needs to be smaller than 2.5  degree C or 4  degree F.

Amazing fact: How body temperature is control? 

The body's temperature control is the tiny hypothalamus in the lower front of the brain.

Amazing fact: When Frost are occurs? 

Frost Advisory - Widespread frost during the growing season. Frost generally occurs with fair skies and light winds.

Amazing fact: how many miles the tornado can be travelled? 

A tornado traveled 275 miles across Lake Ontario, New York and Lake Champlain.

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Amazing fact:  when Mayans used chocolate

Mayans used chocolate in baptisms and in marriage ceremonies. It was also sometimes used in the place of blood during ceremonies. Mayan emperors were often buried with jars of chocolate by their side

Amazing fact: Ninety percent of chocolate made up of which types 

Ninety percent of modern cacao is made from a type of cacao called forastero (foreigner). However, before the 1800s, cacao was made from a type of bean called criollo. Even though forastero does not taste as good as criollo, it is easier to grow

Amazing fact: The Spread of chocolate from Spain throughout 

Eroupe began when? 

The spread of chocolate from Spain throughout Europe began in the sixteenth century with the expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal during the Inquisition. Some Jews who left Spain brought with them Spain's secrets of processing chocolate

Amazing fact: During WW11 German Used chocolates as bombs

During WWII, the Germans designed an exploding, chocolate-covered, thin steel bomb designed to blow up seven seconds after a piece was broken off

Amazing fact: The First chocolate chip

The first chocolate chip cookie was invented in 1937 by Ruth Wakefield who ran the "Toll House Inn." The term "Toll House" is now legally a generic word for chocolate chip cookie. It is the most popular cookie worldwide and is the official cookie of Massachusetts

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Amazing fact: Pet hamster is descended

All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from a single wild golden Hamster found in Syria in 1930!

Amazing fact: Brazil is the fifth largest country

Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world (behind Russia, Canada, China and the United States). It's only 300,000 square miles smaller than the United States. Australia, India, Argentina, Kazakhstan and the Sudan round out the Top 10.

Amazing fact: The first toothbrush

The first toothbrush with bristles was developed in China in 1498. Bristles were taken from hogs at first, later from horses. The nylon bristles were developed in 1938 by DuPont.

Amazing fact: Arabs brew coffee

The Arabs are generally believed to be the first to brew coffee.

Amazing fact: Pound cake

Pound cake is so named not just because of the pound of butter, but more precisely because each of the four main ingredients (flour, butter, sugar and eggs) are weighed out as a pound.

Amazing fact: where Beatles appears? 

The Beatles appear at the end of "The Yellow Submarine" in a short live action epilogue. Their voices for the cartoon movie were done by Paul Angelis (Ringo), Peter Batten (George), John Clive (John), and Geoffrey Hughes (Paul).

Amazing fact: Great Lakes contains how many gallons? 

The Great Lakes contain 6 quadrillion gallons of fresh water, one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water. The Great Lakes are the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world.

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Amazing fact: Strong evidence of linking alcoholism

There is strong evidence linking alcoholism and insomnia.

Amazing fact: Treatment of an eating disorder

Treatment of an eating disorder involves monitoring, mental health therapy, nutritional counseling and sometimes medicines.

Amazing fact: Trichotillomania is an impulse control disorder

Trichotillomania is an impulse control disorder characterized by the urge to pull out scalp hair, eyelashes, nose hair, pubic hair, or eyebrows.

Amazing fact: Untreated is bipolar disorder

Untreated, bipolar disorder can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide.

Amazing fact: VNS is an Adjunctive

Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is an adjunctive treatment for certain types of intractable epilepsy and major depression.

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Amazing fact: Honey bees died

The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.

Amazing fact: DNA

DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

Amazing fact: Dry ice

Dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide, CO2.

Amazing fact: Female breast cancer

Female patients who had been imaged several times with fluoroscopy as a teenager or young woman as treatment for tuberculosis have been found to have an increased risk of breast cancer years later

Amazing fact: IARC

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is a part of the World Health Organization, classifies X-ray and gamma radiation as a "known human carcinogen.'

Amazing fact: Children received radiation dose 

A recent study found that children who received a radiation dose of a least 30 mGy (milligray) from a CT scan to the bone marrow had three times the risk of leukemia compared to those who received a dose of 5 mGy or less

Amazing fact: CT scans on chest

A CT scan on the chest is equivalent to being exposed to two years of naturally occurring radiation

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Amazing fact: Bombay in India breathing the air

Breathing the air in Bombay, India is equivalent to smoking 10 cigarettes a day.

Amazing fact: Indonesia women

The average women in Bolivia, Indonesia, and Guatemala is short enough to be considered a Dwarf (4'10 or under).

Amazing fact: Indonesia smoking habit made headlines

In 2010, a 2-year-old boy from Indonesia, Ardi Rizal, made headlines for having a 40-a-day smoking habit.

Amazing fact: Indonesia died 

A UN report stated that 4 million people died in Indonesia as a result of famine and forced labor during the WW2 Japanese occupation.

Amazing fact: Jakarta in Indonesia population

Jakarta, Indonesia, is the world's largest population center without a metro train system that results in some of the worst traffic jams in the world.

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Amazing fact: Sun Evaporated

Every year the sun evaporates 100,000 cubic miles of water from Earth (400 trillion tonnes)

Amazing fact: Moon orbit

Because the Moon's orbit is elliptical and tilted, we actually see a bit more than half its surface.

Amazing fact: Huge star

In 1843 the huge star Eta Car erupted, ejecting 2 gas bubbles with as much mass as the Sun, each.

Amazing fact: Oort clouds

The Oort Cloud is a vast spherical cloud of comet nuclei one light year from the Sun. It is held relatively weakly by the solar system's gravity, so it can be easily influenced by the gravity of passing stars. This gravity can nudge comets out of position, and send them travelling into the inner solar system

Amazing fact: Largest Structure

The largest structure found in the universe is the Sloan Great Wall, a super cluster of galaxies 1.37 billion light-years wide.

Amazing fact: Marshmallow and The Atomic bomb

If a marshmallow were dropped from a foot above the surface of a neutron star it would have the energy of a modern atomic bomb.

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Amazing fact: Brain Freeze

To make brain freeze pass faster, press your tongue against the top of your mouth.

Amazing fact: Human breathe

During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

Amazing fact: human hands bones

The human hand has 27 bones.

Amazing fact: human blink eyes

The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

Amazing fact: Eyes fastest reaction muscle

The eyes have the fastest reacting muscle in the whole body. It contracts in 1/100th of a second.

Amazing fact: Hair strands

On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years.

Amazing fact: The length of the human blood vessels

The length of human blood vessel is such that it circles the globe two and half times.

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Amazing fact: Donkey live

Donkeys can live between 30 to 50 years in captivity.

Amazing fact: Largest fish

The largest fish in the world is the whale shark. It can weigh several tons and grow to more than fifty feet in length.

Amazing fact: Cats and dogs of U.S.

In the U.S., about 1.2 million dogs and 1.4 million cats are euthanized (put to death) each year.

Amazing fact: Camel population

The world camel population is close to 19 million.

Amazing fact: Lobster

If a lobster loses an eye or a claw it can usually grow a new one.

Amazing fact: Starfish stomach

A starfish can turn its stomach inside out.

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Amazing fact: The Jupiter Ace

The Jupiter Ace (1983) was advertised as "Probably the fastest microcomputer in the universe!".

Amazing fact: Apple Lisa

The Apple Lisa (1983) was the first successful computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse. It cost $10,000.

Amazing fact: Longest phone cable

The longest phone cable is a submarine cable called FLAG (Fiber -Optic Link Around the Globe). It spans 16,800 miles from Japan to the United Kingdom and can carry 600,000 calls at a time.

Amazing fact: Computer bugs

You've heard of computer bugs right? Minor glitches in code that hamper smooth operation. But in 1947, when a computer (Harvard Mark 1) was running a test of it's multiplier and adder function engineers noticed something was wrong despite rechecking everything. On further investigation engineers found a moth in Panel F. The moth was trapped, removed and taped into computer's logbook with the words : "FIRST ACTUAL CASE OF A BUG BEING FOUND".

Amazing fact: Deep blue chess

Deep Blue's chess playing program is written in C and runs under AIX operating system. It is capable of evaluating 10 crore positions per second.

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Amazing fact: Wind

The Winter of 1779-1780 was so cold that ice was piled 20 feet high along the Delmarva Coast and stayed there until spring. The upper portion of the Chesapeake Bay and the entire Potomac River was frozen solid. People were able to walk from Annapolis to Kent Island and from Alexandria into DC.Wind is the fastest growing energy source worldwide.

Amazing fact: Clouds

Clouds appear white because they reflect the suns light.

Amazing fact: Rain drop

Rain drops can fall at speeds of about 22 miles an hour.

Amazing fact: Destruction of tsunami

The destructive nature of tsunamis calls for building more resistant structures in areas with high tsunami risk in years to come.

Amazing fact: lighting strike in same place twice

Can lightning strike twice in the same place? Yes! The old adage of lightning never striking twice in the same place is totally false. Lightning is not limited to a one-bolt action. Many lightning flashes are of a multiple variety and may strike repeatedly in a few seconds. Up to 22 consecutive lightning strokes have been observed in a multiple flash. The top of the Empire State Building in New York City is often hit several times during a severe thunderstorm

Amazing fact:  when Rain bow occurs

Rainbows occur when it's both raining and the sun is shining simultaneously. To see a rainbow, you must stand with your back to the sun, otherwise it will not be visible.

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Amazing fact:  Chocolate

The first people to harvest chocolate were the Mokaya and other pre-Olmec peoples who lived in southeast Mexico around 1000 B.C. The word "chocolate" is derived from the Mayan word xocolatl, or "bitter water."People who feel depressed eat about 55% more chocolate than their non-depressed peers. Chocolate became one of the earliest American exports when, in the early sixteenth century, both Columbus and Cortez brought cacao beans back to Spain. 

Amazing fact : Dark chocolate are beneficial to human health

Dark chocolate has been shown to be beneficial to human health, but milk chocolate, white chocolate, and other varieties are not. For dark chocolate to be beneficial, cacao or chocolate liquor should be the first ingredient listed, not sugar. 

Amazing fact: Dark chocolate boost memory 

Research suggests that dark chocolate boosts memory, attention span, reaction time, and problem-solving skills by increasing blood flow to the brain. Studies have also found that dark chocolate can improve the ability to see in low-contrast situations (such as poor weather) and promote lower blood pressure, which has positive effects on cholesterol levels, platelet function, and insulin sensitivity. 

Amazing fact: Chocolate milk

In a small study at Indiana University, cyclists who drank chocolate milk after a workout had less fatigue and scored higher on endurance tests than those who had a sports drink

Amazing fact: oldest chocolate company

The largest and oldest chocolate company in the U.S. is Hershey's. Hershey's produces over one billion pounds of chocolate product annually

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Amazing fact: Longest word in English

The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!

Amazing fact: Antarctica

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

Amazing fact: Gondolas

All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.

Amazing fact: Locust

A large swarm of locusts can eat 80,000 tons of corn a day.

Amazing fact: Barbers

From the Middle Ages up until the end of the 19th century, barbers performed a number of medical duties including bloodletting, wound treatment, dentistry, minor operations and bone-setting. The barber's striped red pole originated in the Middle Ages, when it was a staff the patient would grip while the barber bled the patient.

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Amazing fact: Ball of glass

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.

Amazing fact: eyes and blinking

If you go blind in one eye, you'll only lose about one-fifth of your vision.Most people blink about 17,000 times a day.

Amazing fact: Otto Hahn

In 1938 Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission by splitting uranium.

Amazing fact: Diamond

A diamond is the hardest natural substance.

Amazing fact: one million earthquakes

Every year over one million earthquakes shake the Earth.

Amazing fact: Solar system

The Solar System has nine planets including Pluto, but Pluto may be an escaped moon or an asteroid not a planet.

Amazing fact: Space Vehicles speed

A space vehicle must move at a rate of at least 27.35km (17 miles) per second to escape Earth's gravity.

Amazing fact: Brain storage capacity

Your brain is capable of storing more than 100 billion bits of information.

Amazing fact: Mercury is liquid

Mercury is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

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Amazing fact: Africa

Islam is currently the largest religion in Africa, with Christianity following closely behind. These two religions make up 85% of the continent's population, while just 15% of the population are nonreligious or follow traditional African religions

Amazing fact: China

Every 30 seconds, a baby is born with a birth defect in China.Table tennis is China's national sport.Karate actually originated in India, but was developed further in China.

Amazing fact: India

For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America.The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system in India, employing over 1.6 million people.The highest bridge in the world is located in the Himalyan mountains. It was built by the Indian Army, in 1982, and is about 5,600 metres above sea level.India has the most post offices in the world.Diamonds were first discovered in the riverbeds of the Golconda region of India over 4,000 years ago.India has a Bill of Rights for cows.India used to be the richest country in the world until the British invasion in the early 17th Century.Between 1902 and 1907, the same tiger killed 434 people in India.The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India and has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college.

Amazing fact: Indonesia

Indonesia is the world's largest island country, with more than 13,000 islands.The Komodo dragon is the national animal of Indonesia.Indonesia has the world's highest rate of deforestation, with Brazil as a close second.Homo sapiens reached the region of Indonesia around 45,000 years ago.With 238 million people, Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, just behind China, India, and the U.S. The island of Java, with over 140 million people, is the most populous island in the world.

Amazing fact: marco Polo

Marco Polo was the first European to visit Indonesia, in 1292.

Amazing fact: Antares, Saturn, Earth, moon, Andromeda, Asteroid.

Amazing fact: Antares

Antares is about 420 million kms in diameter, which is 300 times the width of the sun.

Amazing fact: Saturn

Saturn is the flattest planet in the solar system: its polar diameter is only 90% of its equatorial diameter.Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are made up of just gas with no solid surface to land on.

Amazing fact: Earth

The Earth is expected to be effectively habitable for about another 500 million years.

Amazing fact: Moon

The moon is one million times drier than the Gobi Desert.

Amazing fact: Andromeda

The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also contains our own galaxy (Milky Way).

Amazing fact: Asteroid

In the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter is the largest group of known asteroids - the area known as the asteroid belt. It has been estimated that asteroid belt contains between 1.1 and 1.9 million asteroids larger than 1 km (0.6 mi) in diameter.

Amazing fact about Blood vessels, human body, sperm, brain, breathe.

Amazing fact: Blood vessels

If the blood vessels were laid from end to end, they would reach around the world four times.

Amazing fact: Human body

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, phosphorous to make 2200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

Amazing fact: Sperm

About 500 million sperm mature every day in a normal male adult.

Amazing fact: brain

To make brain freeze pass faster, press your tongue against the top of your mouth.

Amazing fact: breathe

During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.

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Amazing fact: Bears

Bears live as long as 30 years in the wild. One captive brown bear lived to the age of 47

Amazing fact: Kiwi

The New Zealand Kiwi bird cannot fly.

Amazing fact: Parrot

Parrots are some of the best known birds in the world. There are about 315 species of parrots found worldwide both in rainforests and other environments.

Amazing fact: Ant

The average life expectancy of an ant is about 90 days.

Amazing fact: sharks

Sharks are capable of going at least 6 weeks without eating; the record observed in an aquarium is 15 months by a species of shark known as the swell sharks.

Amazing fact: Bees

It takes about 12 bees their entire lifetime to make one teaspoon of honey.

Amazing fact: Stomach stone

Many animals swallow rocks, including chickens, penguins, crocodiles, and seals. Rocks that have been swallowed are called gastroliths, meaning "stomach stones".

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Amazing fact: Apple

The first great flop for "Apple Computers" was the Apple III in 1981.

Amazing fact: Macintosh

In 1984, the Macintosh was introduced by the famous "1984" commercial, which showed a young, female rebel (Apple) striking a blow against corporate "Big Brother" (presumably IBM).If you opened up the case of the original Macintosh, you would find 47 signatures, one for each member of Apple's Macintosh division as of 1982.

Amazing fact: Texas instrument

When fully expanded, the "Texas Instruments" TI-99/4 from 1979 can be over 3 feet wide.

Amazing fact: World Wide Web

While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

Amazing fact: Email

On August 28, 1991, the first true email message from space was sent by the crew of the space shuttle STS-43 Atlantis using a Mac Portable and specifically configured AppleLink software.

Amazing fact: WWW technology

April 30, 1993 is an important date for the Web because on that day, CERN announced that anyone may use WWW technology freely.

Amazing fact about Australia, Storms, Saturn, Rain drop, Tree cricket.

Amazing fact: Australia

In Australia's capital cities dust storms are somewhat of a rarity, but have, nonetheless, been responsible for causing significant inconvenience to city life.In Australia, Canberra wins the title of the 'foggiest' capital city with an average of 47 fogs each year.

Amazing fact: Storms

In the tropics where storms travel from the east to the west, rainbows are often seen before a storms arrive.

Amazing fact: Saturn

Saturn has clouds. In fact, any planet or moon with an atmosphere has clouds.

Amazing fact: Rain drop

A raindrop is neither spherical or tear-drop shaped. It is in fact shaped like a burger bun and it falls flat side down.

Amazing fact: Tree cricket

Tree crickets are called the poor man's thermometer because temperature directly affects their rate of activity. Count the number of chirps a cricket makes in 15 seconds, then add 37. The sum will be very close to the outside temperature!

Amazing fact about Chicken, Apple, Cheese, Nutella, McDonald's, Coffee

Amazing fact: Chicken

Chicken contains 266% more fat than it did 40 years ago.

Amazing fact: Apple

Apples are part of the rose family.

Amazing fact: Cheese

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.

Amazing fact: Nutella

Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.

Amazing fact: McDonald's

Only one McDonald's in the world has turquoise arches. Sedona, AZ thought yellow clashed with the natural red rock.

Amazing fact: Coffee

Chock Full o' Nuts coffee does not contain nuts. It's named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops.

Amazing fact about Cubic Mile, Robert Redford, Nine U.S. president, Alarm clock, Melanie Griffith's.

Amazing fact: Cubic Mile

A cubic mile of seawater contains over 150 million tons of minerals.

Amazing fact: Robert Redford

Robert Redford attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship.

Amazing fact: Nine U.S. president

Nine U.S. Presidents never went to college: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, and Harry Truman.

Amazing fact: Alarm

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.

Amazing fact: Melanie Griffith's

Melanie Griffith's mother is actress Tippi Hendren, best known for her lead role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.

Amazing fact about Psychohistories, Ink-blot, psychology, ESP, Oskar Pfungst.

Amazing fact: Psychohistories

Psychohistories are problematical when they explain too much. This occurs when the writer doesn't account for chance and coincidence in the life of the person being studied.

Amazing fact: Ink-blot

The ink-blot test is not much use for finding out anything about another person.

Amazing fact: Psychology

In psychology, a believer is someone who accepts something before checking it out scientifically whereas the skeptic is someone who does not accept something until it has been verified scientifically. Most psychologists are skeptics.

Amazing fact: ESP

The term ESP (extrasensory perception) was made popular by Duke University researcher J. B. Rhine. He identified four types of ESP: clairvoyance, telepathy, telekinesis, precognition. He was a poor researcher and was often tricked by many of his subjects. Any good magician can outperform the most successful practitioner of ESP.

Amazing fact: Oskar Pfungst

In 1907 German psychologist Oskar Pfungst studied a horse that its owner claimed could perform mental feats such as adding numbers. It couldn't without unconscious cues from its owner.

Amazing fact about satellite, stars, Humming bird, Astatine, Laser.

Amazing fact: Satellite

A scientific satellite needs only 250 watts of power, the equivalent used by two hour light bulbs, to operate.

Amazing fact: Stars

There are between 100,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000 stars in a normal galaxy.

Amazing fact: Humming bird

The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird, which achieves this feat by beating its wings up and down at a very fast speed; some species reach 80 beats per second.

Amazing fact: Astatine

Only 28 grams of the rarest substance on Earth exist. What's the rarest substance on Earth? Astatine.

Amazing fact: laser

The most powerful laser is the BELLA which generates a quadrillion watts, with a duration of 40 femtoseconds (0.00000000000004 seconds).

Amazing fact about National university, laws, Elephant in Thailand, Indonesia, malaria in Africa.

Amazing fact: National University

The National University of Mexico was founded in 1551 by Charles V of Spain and is the oldest university in North America

Amazing fact: Laws

There are no laws against public nudity in Spain.

Amazing fact: Elephant in Thailand

A century ago, more than 100,000 elephants lived in Thailand, with about 20,000 of them untamed. Now, there are about 5,000, with less than half of them wild

Amazing fact: Indonesia

Indonesia is the only Southeast Asian country to have been a member of OPEC, although it left the cartel in 2008 due to the decline in world oil prices.

Amazing fact: Malaria in Africa

Approximately 90% of all cases of malaria worldwide occur in Africa, and 3,000 African children die each day from its effects.

Amazing fact about star, Pluto moon, moon, lunar module, sun.

Amazing fact: Star

The largest known star Canis Majoris is so big that if our Sun were a ball 117cm (46in) wide, Canis Majoris would be 2.25 kilometers (1.3 miles) wide.About 3,000 stars are visible to the unaided eye on a clear moonless night. About 100,000 stars can be seen using a small telescope. There are an estimated one hundred billion (100,000,000,000) stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, although some estimates range up to four times that many, much depending on the number of brown dwarfs and other very dim stars.

Amazing fact: Pluto moon

Due to its size, Pluto's moon Charon is also considered to be a double dwarf planet (two planets orbiting each other), rather than a moon orbiting its planet.

Amazing fact: moon

The moon smells like burnt gunpowder. No one is quite sure why.The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.

Amazing fact: lunar module

The Lunar Module from the Apollo missions required less computer power to land on the moon than today's average cellphone!

Amazing fact: Sun

The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day.

Amazing fact about Babies, people, man, kidney, Nails, DNA, Forgetting.

Amazing fact: Babies

All babies are color blind when they are born.

Amazing fact: People

People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones.

Amazing fact: Man

On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.

Amazing fact: Kidney

In a lifetime, the human kidneys clean over 1 million gallons of blood.

Amazing fact: Nails

Nails and corneas are the only two tissues in the body that do not receive oxygen from blood.

Amazing fact: DNA

The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.

Amazing fact: Forgetting

You forget 50-80% of what you learn each day if you do nothing with the new information, such as review, rethink or reread it, on the same day.

Amazing fact about Ants, Howler monkey, Gentoo, Giraffe, Hippopotamus.

Amazing fact: Ants

Scientists have attached stilts to ants' legs to prove that ants reach their goal by counting their steps. Ants with stilts marched past their goal due to the new length of their stride.

Amazing fact: Howler monkey

Howler monkeys spend up to 80% of their time resting

Amazing fact: Gentoo

The fastest underwater swimming bird is the Gentoo Penguin, able to swim up to 22 mph (36 km/h)

Amazing fact: Giraffes

A giraffe's tongue grows to about 21 inches in length.

Amazing fact: Hippopotamus

When a hippopotamus stays out of water for too long, it secretes red-colored sweat, to protect itself from the sun.

Amazing fact about Dilbert zone, Facebook, online gaming, Nam june paik, Ericsson.

Amazing fact: Dilbert zone

The Dilbert Zone was the first comic website on the Internet.

Amazing fact: Facebook

Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.A third of all divorce filings of 2011 in the U.S. contained the word "Facebook."You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.Facebook earns an average of US$5.85 from every U.S. user.

Amazing fact: Online gaming

Online gaming isn't as recent a development as you may think; in the '90s, a modem peripheral called the Satellaview was released for the Super Nintendo. It let gamers download gaming news and specially-designed games. They were mostly remakes of retro classics.

Amazing fact: Nam june paik

Nam June Paik coined the phrase "information superhighway" in 1974. Al Gore popularized the phrase in the early 1990's.

Amazing fact: Ericsson

Ericsson was the first company to market a device as a "smartphone" in 2000 with the launch of the R380. The first working smartphone was introduced eight years earlier by IBM, which debuted the Simon at COMDEX.

Amazing fact about Rainfall, Spring, Dust mite, clouds, Flooding, coldest temperature.

Amazing fact: Rainfall

The heaviest recorded rainfall occurred at Foc-Foc, Reunion, an island in the Indian Ocean, where 1,825 millimetres fell in twenty-four hours.

Amazing fact: Spring 

In the eastern United States, Spring weather travels northward at a rate of about 13 miles (20 km) per day.

Amazing fact: Dust mite

Dust mite populations peak during the hot, humid months of July and August.

Amazing fact: clouds

In 1803 the first classification of clouds was made up by Luke Howard (1772-1864) who used Latin words to describe their characteristics: Cirrus (tufts or whisps), Stratus (a layer), Nimbus (rain bearing) and Cumulus (a heap or pile).The puffy clouds we often see floating in a blue sky are called cumulus clouds.

Amazing fact: Flooding

Excessive flooding was reported along the Mississippi River and all over the Midwest, from Ohio to the Milk River in Montana. In some places it was the worst flooding of record.

Amazing fact: coldest temperature

The coldest temperature ever recorded was a negative 126.9 degrees fahrenheit in Vostok Station, Antarctica.

Amazing fact about soup, pumpkin, pastas, peanut, Black pepper, bananas, cheese.

Amazing fact: Soup

The first soup was made from hippopotamus and dates back to 6000 B.C

Amazing fact: pumpkins

Pumpkins contain potassium and vitamin A.

Amazing fact: pastas

There are over 600 different pasta shapes.

Amazing fact: peanut

The peanut is not a nut, it is actually a legume.

Amazing fact: Black pepper

Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.

Amazing fact: Bananas

There are over 500 different types of bananas.

Amazing fact: Cheese

There are many types of cheese, with around 500 different varieties recognised by the International Dairy Federation, and over 1,000 by Sandine and Elliker. The method most commonly and traditionally used is based on moisture content, which is then further narrowed down by fat content and curing or ripening methods.

Amazing fact about Acorns, Toboggan, Sumatra tree, vulture, whale.

Amazing fact: Acorns

Acorns were used as a coffee substitute during the Civil War.

Amazing fact: Toboggan

Toboggan is derived from the Algonquin language and loosely meant "instrument with which to drag a cord".

Amazing fact: Sumatra tree

Leaves of the Sumatra breadfruit tree are notched when they first form, yet have no indentations when the leaves mature.

Amazing fact: Vulture

A vulture will never attack a human or animal that is moving.

Amazing fact: Whale

The blow of a whale has a strong, foul odor. It apparently smells like a combination of spoiled fish and old oil. Because whales have such terrible breath, sailors believed at one time that a whiff of it could cause brain disorders.

Amazing fact about suicide, psychology, polygraph, Psychologists, hypnosis.

Amazing fact: suicide

One Chinese man, Chen Si, stopped more than 144 people from committing suicide off the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, by coming to the bridge every week.

Amazing fact: psychology

Psychology has discovered over forty cognitive, thinking errors all people are susceptible to.

Amazing fact: polygraph

The polygraph, the so-called lie detector, cannot reliably detect a person who is lying.

Amazing fact: psychologists

Psychologists do more than provide therapy to people in need (clinical psychology). They teach, do research, design programs for NASA, work with law enforcement, help business be more effective, and show athletes strategies for peak performance - to name a few of the many areas of expertise for psychologists.

Amazing fact: hypnosis

Hypnosis, when effective, is nothing more than the operation of the placebo effect.

Python: Definition, features, application and need

 What is Python ?

• It is powerful,general-purpose, high level,object oriented programming language.
• It is developed by Guido van Rossum .
• It is released in 1991.

Features of Python ?

• Platform Independent:Python is called platform independent because a Python program can be run on different kind of platform for example Window os,Linux osetc.
• Object Oriented:Python supports object oriented programming structure so it is called object oriented.
• Flexible:An application developed in Python can be modified as per user requirement so it is called flexible programming language.
• Structure Oriented:To write program in Python there is a fixed structure so it is called structure oriented.
• Portable:A Python program written in one system can be run in any other system.In simple a Python program can be transferred from one system to another.
• Simple:Python is very simple and easy to learn.

Application of Python ?

• Web Application
• Software development
• Database GUI Application
• Scientific and Numeric Computing
• Business Applications
• Console Based Application

Why Use Python ?

• It is very simple and easy to learn.
• It powerful,fast and secure.
• It has very simple syntax.
• It is powerful scripting language.
• It can be run on different kind of platform for example Window,Mac,Linux etc.

Learn Python: Spinbox

 Spinbox

• It is approaximately same as tkinter Entry but in Spinbox we can provide range of values to the user ,out of which ,user can select one.

• Syntax:
  

  m = Spinbox ( master, option1,option2, ... )
  

• Here master is parent window and option can be used as a key-value pairs.

• Examples of options are bg,font,width,height etc.

from tkinter import *
top = Tk()
top['bg']="#51E1DC"
top.geometry("200x150")
#create spinbox
Spinbox(top, from_=10, to=20).pack(pady=5)
top.mainloop()
 

Out

Learn Python: Adding function and two numbers

Adding function

#function definition

def addition():

    x=10

    y=20

    z=x+y

    print("Sum=",z)

#function calling

addition()

Addition of two numbers

  #taking user input

x=int(input("Enter first number:"))

y=int(input("Enter Second number:"))

z=x+y

print("Addition of two number:",z)

"""

***Output***

Enter first number:12

Enter Second number:13

Addition of two number: 25

"""   

Amazing fact about Hair and fingernails, laser, ants, equilibrant force, Air port, copper.

Amazing fact: hair and fingernails

Hair and fingernails do not keep growing once someone dies. Instead, the skin shrinks, giving the appearance of further growth.

Amazing fact: laser

The first laser was made in California in 1960.

Amazing fact: ants

There are more than 20,000 ants species living on our planet.

Amazing fact: equilibrant force

The equilibrant force is equal in magnitude but opposite in direction to the resultant vector.

Amazing fact: Airport

Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.

Amazing fact: copper

Scientists have discovered that copper pollution of the atmosphere occurred about 2500 years ago. This was discovered by analyzing ice cores from Greenland. The pollution was attributed to the Romans who used copper for military purposes and to produce coins.

Amazing fact about Africa, Greeks, India, Opera, North Korea, Thailand.

Amazing fact: Africa

Africa is the second largest of the earth's seven continents and makes up approximately 22% of the earth's total land area

Amazing fact: Greek

About 10% of a Greek worker's pay is taken for taxes and another 10% for national health care. The government provides free hospitals and other medical services.Greek workers get at least one month of paid vacation every year

Amazing fact: India

India is the largest democracy in the world.

Amazing fact: Opera

The world's first operas were composed in Italy at the end of the sixteenth century. Opera reached the height of popularity in the nineteenth century, when the works of Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868), Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), and Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) became hugely popular. The late tenor Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007) is a national celebrity, and Claudio Monteverdi (c. 1567-1643) is regarded as the father of the modern opera

Amazing fact: North Korea

North Korea was accepted into the United Nations in 1991

Amazing fact: Thailand

The world's smallest mammal, the Craseonycteris thonglongyai (the bumble bat), is found in Thailand

Amazing fact about cosmic year, Jupiter, metal, moon, black hole.

Amazing fact: cosmic years

A cosmic year is the time it takes the sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way (between 225-250 million years).

Amazing fact: Jupiter

The gravity on Jupiter is 2.6 times that of the Earth.

Amazing fact: metal

If two pieces of metal touch in space, they get stuck together permanently.

Amazing fact: moon

41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.

Amazing fact: Black hole

Black holes come in three sizes: stellar mass, intermediate mass and supermassive.

Amazing fact about dream, heart, brain, blood, teeth.

Amazing fact: dream

Childhood dreams are shorter than adult dreams and nearly 40% of them are nightmares, which may act as a coping mechanism

Amazing fact: heart

The condition known as "broken heart syndrome" has effects similar to a heart attack. It can be caused by a breakup or physical separation from a loved one.

Amazing fact: brain

Our Brain has over 100 billion nerve cells.

Amazing fact: blood

On an average, the human blood circulates the body for every 23 seconds.

Amazing fact: teeth

People who clean their teeth often have 1,000 to 100,000 bacteria living on each tooth, while less clean mouths can have between 100 million to a billion bacteria on each tooth.

Amazing fact about Bat, cat, Elephant, chameleon, cows.

Amazing fact: Bat

The world's largest bat is the giant golden-crowned flying fox, a rare fruit bat. It has a wingspan of 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 m)

Amazing fact: Cat

The world's fattest cat, Meow, weighed 39.6 pounds.

Amazing fact: Elephant

Elephants can communicate by sound waves below normal human hearing. They can also communicate with seismics, vibrations produced by impacts on the earth's surface.

Amazing fact: Chameleon

The smallest known chameleon, Brookesia micra, from the islet of Nosy Hara in Antsiranana, Madagascar, can grow up to 1.1 inches in length.

Amazing fact: Cow

A cow can give far more milk than a human can consume their lifetime. Any guesses? Almost 200,000 glasses full of milk!

Amazing fact about Adobe Photoshop, Google, dell Inc, Intel, windows, Master David levy.

Amazing fact: Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop was originally called Display, then ImagePro. It was not developed by Adobe, but licensed from a college student named Thomas Knoll in 1988.

Amazing fact: Google

By July 2008, Google had indexed an astounding 1 trillion (1000000000000) pages on the Internet.

Amazing fact: Dell Inc

Dell Inc. was originally called PCs Limited.

Amazing fact: Intel

Intel is short for Integrated Electronics.

Amazing fact: Windows

The first Windows virus was called Winver 1.4.

Amazing fact: Master David Levy

In 1968, International Master David Levy made a $3,000 bet with McCarthy a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University that no chess computer in the world would beat him. He won his bet.

Amazing fact about Earth, coldest air, clouds, Rain drop, wind.

Amazing fact:Earth

The Earth sees about 760 thunderstorms every hour, scientists have calculated.

Amazing fact: Coldest air

The coldest air temperature ever recorded in Britain was -27degree C (10 January 1982 in Grampian).

Amazing fact : clouds

If the cloud is very cold it means that it is made up of ice crystals.

Amazing fact: Rain drop

Rain drops range in size from 0.02 inches to about .031 inches.

Amazing fact: Wind

The strongest ever recorded wind was on Mt Washington, New Hampshire, USA at an amazing 231mph.

Amazing fact about McDonald's, coffee, almonds, strawberry, chocolate.

Amazing fact: McDonald's

McDonald's is the largest purchaser of beef, pork, and potatoes and the second largest purchaser of chicken in the world. Its annual orders for french fries constitute 7.5% of America's entire potato crop

Amazing fact: coffee

Coffee has about five times the amount of caffeine as a can of Coke.

Amazing fact: Almonds

40 percent of the almonds in the world are used by manufacturers of chocolate.

Amazing fact: strawberry

On average, a strawberry has 200 seeds on it.

Amazing fact: chocolate

Approximately 71 million pounds of chocolate candy is sold during the week leading up to Easter. Only 48 million pounds of chocolate is sold during Valentine's week. In contrast, over 90 million pounds of chocolate candy is sold in the last week of October leading up to Halloween

Amazing fact about second, frogs, panda, blood, fat, library of Congress, Irish language, Motorola,

Amazing fact: second

One million seconds is ~ (about) 11 days, one billion seconds is ~32 years, and a trillion seconds is ~32,000 years.

Amazing fact: frogs

Frogs don't drink water.

Amazing fact: panda

At birth, a panda weighs three to five ounces and is about 1/900th the size of its mother.

Amazing fact: blood

Blood is six times thicker than water.

Amazing fact: Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world.

Amazing fact: Irish language

The Irish language has no words for "yes" and "no".

Amazing fact: fat

The average human body has enough fat to make 7 bars of soap.

Amazing fact: Motorola

The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player for automobiles. At that time the most known player on the market was the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

Amazing fact about studies, lie, substance abuse, suicide, psychology.

Amazing fact: studies

Studies show that children suffering from separation anxiety disorder are much more likely to have ADHD, bipolar disorder, and panic disorder.

Amazing fact: Lie

When telling a lie, there is generally less hand movement.

Amazing fact: substance abuse

Substance abuse is a pattern of repeated use of alcohol, drugs, or both, even though this use causes unpleasant or distressing events in the user's life.

Amazing fact: suicide

Suicide is the 11th most common cause of death in the U.S.

Amazing fact : psychology

For a person to practice psychology, she must be licensed and have a doctorate degree.

Amazing fact about underwater, water, sunlight, human eye, gases.

Amazing fact: underwater

At 50 feet underwater, blood looks green, because there are no red wavelengths of light at this depth.

Amazing fact: water

One single drop of water contains about 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (5 sextillion) atoms.Water expands by 9% when it freezes. Frozen water (ice) is lighter than water, which is why ice floats in water.

Amazing fact: sunlight

The amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface is 6,000 times the amount of energy used by all human beings worldwide. The total amount of fossil fuel used by humans since the start of civilization is equivalent to less than 30 days of sunshine.

Amazing fact: human eye

The smallest particle, or dot, that can be seen by the unaided human eye, is about 0.004 inches in size.

Amazing fact: gases

Dry air contains 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 0.9% argon, 0.4-1% water vapour, 0.03% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases.

Amazing fact about Egypt, Africa, New Zealand, China, Denmark.

Amazing fact: Egypt

Egypt is the most popular tourist destination in Africa, attracting around 10 million visitors per year

Amazing fact: Africa

More than 17 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have died of AIDS, and experts estimate that at least 25 million more people in Africa are HIV-positive

Amazing fact: New Zealand

Only 23% of New Zealand families have more than two children.

Amazing fact: china

China has the world's largest standing army and second-largest defense budget.In China, over 35 million people still live in caves.

Amazing fact: Denmark

Denmark is reported to be the happiest country in the world.

Amazing fact about Earth, sun, moon, neutron star, solar system.

Amazing fact: Earth

The planet Earth is located about 150,000,000 kilometers away from the sun, but the distance is not constant. The earth travels at a speed of about 490,000 miles per hour around the center of our galaxy, which means that in one minute you are over 8,100 miles away from where you were.

Amazing fact: sun

The Sun is 400,000 times brighter than the full Moon in the sky.

Amazing fact: moon

The Moon spins around its axis in the same time it goes one lap around the Earth which makes us always see the same side of it.Every year the moon moves about 1.5 inches further away from the earth.

Amazing fact: neutron star 

The fastest spinning objects in the Universe are neutron stars, these can rotate 500 times in just 1 second.

Amazing fact: solar system

99% of our solar systems mass is concentrated in the sun.

Amazing fact: gag reflex, bones, gold,skin, brains cell, blood.

Amazing fact: gag reflex

You can disable your gag reflex by making a fist with your left hand and squeezing your thumb.

Amazing fact: bones

Bones make up only 14% of our weight.

Amazing fact: gold

Our bodies contain about 0.2 milligrams of gold, most of it in our blood. It would take 5,000 people to make a 0.35 ounce of gold.

Amazing fact: skin

The skin is the heaviest organ. The average adult skin weighs about 20 pounds.

Amazing fact: brain cells

Only 4% of the brains cells work and the remaining cells are kept in reserve.

Amazing fact: blood 

In 24 hours, the blood in the body travels a total of 12000 miles - that's four times the width of North America.

Amazing fact: Chicken, koalas, honey bees, snakes and lizard, marine iguanas.

Amazing fact: chicken

A chicken loses feathers when it becomes stressed.

Amazing fact: koalas

Koalas rarely drink. They generally get enough fluids just from eating eucalyptus leaves.

Amazing fact: honey bee 

A honey bee strokes its wings about 11,500 times a minute.

Amazing fact: snakes and lizard

Snakes and lizards shed their skin when they grow. Researchers believe that dinosaurs may have done the same.

Amazing fact: marine iguanas

Marine iguanas can stay underwater for up to 30 minutes.

Amazing fact: Facebook,fund, ipod mini, computer slang, floppy disks.

Amazing fact: Facebook

1 in every 6 people on Earth is on Facebook.

Amazing fact: fund

The first funding of $100,000 for Google was provided by Andy Bechtolsheim the co-founder of Sun Microsystems.

Amazing fact: ipod mini

On January 6, 2004, Apple introduced the first iPod mini. It had 4 GB of storage and featured for the first time the "click wheel".

Amazing fact: computer slang

In computer slang, an ordinary, postal mail is called a snail mail.

Amazing fact: floppy disks

Floppy disks in the late 1970s were 8 inches in diameter.

Amazing fact: Rain, lightning, rain bow, wind, fog and mist.

Amazing fact: Rain

For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the Earth.

Amazing fact: Lightning

Lightning's return stroke is hotter than the surface of the sun. Lightning is 50,000 degrees F. The sun is about 11,000 degrees F.

Amazing fact: rainbow

A Rainbow is light refracted through millions of droplets of water.

Amazing fact: wind

An average wind speed of 14mph is required to convert wind energy into electricity.

Amazing fact: fog and mist

The only difference between fog and mist is in their density. Fog reduces visibility to less than 1 km while mist reduces visibility to no less than 1 km.

Amazing fact: Honey, coconut water, butter, can of Pepsi, alcohol.

Amazing fact: Honey

Honey is the only food that will never rot, it can last 3000 years.

Amazing fact: coconut water

Coconut water can be used (in emergencies) as a substitute for blood plasma.

Amazing fact: butter

To make one pound of butter, 29 cups of milk are needed.

Amazing fact: can of Pepsi

A can of Pepsi has 41 grams of sugar. This amount to about seven teaspoons of sugar.

Amazing fact: Alcohol

It only takes 6 minutes for brain cells to react to alcohol.

Amazing fact: Cockroach, egg, tsunami, Egypt pyramid, Burj Khalifa.

Amazing fact: Cockroach

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

Amazing fact: egg

It is almost impossible to break an egg by squeezing both its ends.

Amazing fact: tsunami

The largest recorded tsunami wave struck Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958, destroying vegetation up to 1,722 feet above the height of the bay.

Amazing fact:  Egypt Pyramid

The base of the great pyramid in Egypt is larger than 10 football fields.

Amazing fact: Burj Khalifa

The tallest building in the world is Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. At a height of 2,722 feet, it has the world's highest restaurant, nightclub, and observation deck.

Amazing fact: Psychology, depression, memory, stress, dream

Amazing fact: Psychology

Psychology says, If you are meeting someone for the first time, you only have about seven seconds to make a powerful first impression.

In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information.

Psychologists cannot read people's minds.

Psychologists say 80 percent of communication among humans is body language and only 20 percent is the spoken word.

Amazing fact: Depression

Depression is dangerous: 1 in 16 people diagnosed with depression dies by suicide.

Amazing fact: memory

Loss of memory is known as amnesia.Memory may be improved via simple lifestyle changes such as memory exercises, healthy eating, physical activity, and stress reduction.

Amazing fact: stress

Stress is a physical, mental, and emotional response to life's changes and demands.

Amazing fact: dream

Studies of dreams have found that about 3/4 of dream content or emotions are negative.

Union minister died due to Corona(covid-19)

Union Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi passed away on Wednesday. Earlier this month he was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi after he contracted coronavirus disease.

Union Minister of State for Railways Suresh Angadi passed away on Wednesday. Earlier this month he was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi after he contracted coronavirus disease.

Following his swab samples returning positive for COVID-19 on September 11, the MP from Belagavi had requested all those who came in close contact with him in the last few days to monitor their health and get tested in case of any symptoms.

Reference: The Times of India

Ministers of India who are covid-19 positive

Union Ministers who have been detected with Covid-19 include, Home Minister Amit Shah, Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Choudhary, Ayush Minister Shripad Nayak, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, MoS for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal and Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.

All these ministers are affected by Corona virus .

When ministers are not saved what about normal and ordinary man.

Don't underestimate this virus and take precautions

Reference: The Times of India

Amazing fact:Water, rainbow, heart beats, dream, metal.

Amazing fact: water

Hot water freezes faster than cold water.If hot water is poured into a glass, the glass is more apt to break if it's thick than if it's thin, which is why test tubes are made of thin glass.

Amazing fact: Rainbow

You can create an artificial rainbow for yourself with a garden hose. Simply stand with your back to the sun and adjust the hose to a fine spray.

Amazing fact: heart beat

A women's heart beats faster than a men's.

Amazing fact: Dream

On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.

Amazing fact: metal

If water flows fast enough, it can cut metal. There is actually a tool, called a waterjet, which is used for cutting metal with water.

Amazing fact: China, India, Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia.

Amazing fact: China

The Population of China is 1,435,275,255 and it is largest country in the world about its population.

Amazing fact: India

The world's largest family is said to be from Baktwang, India, where father Ziona Chana has 94 children by 39 different wives.

Amazing fact: Brazil

Brazil is the world's largest market for crack cocaine.

Amazing fact: Egypt

Egypt has the largest Arabic population in the world.

Amazing fact: Indonesia

Did you know that Indonesia is home to 12.7% of the world's Muslim population? That also makes Indonesia the world's largest Muslim country, with over 87% of the country's population identifying themselves as Muslim.

Amazing fact: Earth, mercury, moon, sun.

Amazing fact:Earth

The planet Earth is located about 150,000,000 kilometers away from the sun, but the distance is not constant.

The Earth is tiny in comparison with the rest of the universe - it could fit into the sun 1.3 million times.

Amazing fact: Mercury

A day on Mercury lasts longer than its year! Mercury moves around the sun faster than any other planet - making its year the equivalent of 88 Earth days. While a day on Mercury - the interval between one sunrise and the next - lasts 176 Earth days!

Amazing fact: Moon

The moon is the reason why we have tides and waves on Earth. Along with the sun, it moves billions of tonnes of water each day.

Amazing fact: Sun

If the sun stopped shining suddenly, it would take eight minutes for people on earth to notice, because of how long it takes sunlight to reach earth.

The Sun is 400,000 times brighter than the full Moon in the sky.

Amazing fact:Eyes, human heart, hair, muscles, bones.

Amazing fact: Eyes

You can not see your own eyes in motion when looking in a mirror since, as your eyes move, your brain automatically blocks blurred images, making you blind at these moments.

Amazing fact: Human heart

The human heart is not on the left side of the chest. It's in the middle, between your right and left lung, tilted slightly to the left..

Amazing fact: Hair

The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair.

Amazing fact:  Muscles

When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles. Walking uses a great deal of muscle power especially if you take your 10000 steps.

Amazing fact: bones

Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.

Amazing fact: Animals and bird

Amazing facts: Blue whale

The blue whale is the largest creature that has ever lived on earth. It tips the scales at a whopping 170 tons - that's the same as about 22 elephants. Its heart is the size of a small car, and its largest blood vessels are wide enough for an adult to swim through without much difficulty.

Amazing fact: hummingbirds

A hummingbird's eggs are pea sized. A newborn is about an inch long and weighs about one-third of a U.S. Dime.

Amazing fact: Jelly fish

The lion's mane jellyfish is the largest species of jellyfish, reaching a width of 7.5 feet, with tentacles up to 121.4 feet long.

Amazing fact:Lions

A lion's roar can be heard from five miles away.

Amazing fact: Sea otters

Sea otters sometimes hold hands while sleeping to keep from drifting apart.

Amazing fact: Queen Bee

In one day, a queen bee can lay up to 1500 eggs in one day.

Amazing fact: leaf insects

Leaf insects take on the appearance of leaves, and even rock back and forth when walking, to mimic a real leaf being blown by the wind.

Amazing fact: gold fish

Goldfish lose their color if they are kept in dim light or are placed in a body of running water, such as a stream.

Amazing fact: Purple frogs

The purple frog spends most of the year underground, surfacing for about two weeks, during the monsoon season, in order to mate.

Amazing fact: Dolphins

Dolphins have been trained to turn in trash in exchange for fish. One dolphin was smart enough to hide paper under a rock and tear off small pieces in order to get more fish.

Amazing fact: Female Lion

The female lion does more than 90% of the hunting while the male simply prefers to rest.

Amazing fact: Folding paper

A normal size paper cannot be folded by hand more than eight times. The most a large piece of paper has been folded is 13 times.

Amazing fact: Dream

On average, people spend more than five years of their lives dreaming.

Gk 2

In which country is ‘Takla Makan’ desert situated?

A. Kazakhstan

B. Turkmenistan

C. Uzbekistan

D. China

Ans.- d

Effects of urine of male dogs

Amazing facts

In Croatia, scientists discovered that lampposts were falling down because a chemical in the urine of male dogs was rotting the metal

GK-1

The Tilaiya Dam is located in which state?

A. Punjab

B. Jammu & Kashmir

C. Jharkhand

D. Himachal Pradesh

Ans.- c

Explanation- 

The Tilaiya Dam is a concrete gravity dam build across the Barakar River at Tilaiya in Koderma district of Jharkhand. It has a maximum height of 30.2 metres above the river bed. The dam has a catchment area of 984 square kilometres comprising mainly forests, pastures, cultivated lands and waste lands. The annual rainfall in the area is 127 cm. It was inaugurated on 21 February 1953. It has a power generation capacity of 2 x 2 MW.

Which one of the following animals was not represented on the seals and terracotta art of the Harappan culture?

A. Tiger

B. Elephant

C. Cow

D. Lion

Ans.- c

Common error in English

1)Tom a lot of people invited.

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Tom invited a lot of people.(Right)

Tom invited of people a lot

2)I think you should never put this T-shirt on.(Right)

I think you never should put this T-shirt on.

I think you should put this T-shirt never on.

I think you should put never this T-shirt on.

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