Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
Unknown Facts of Earthquake
1. The destruction which is caused by an earthquake impacts on average about 8000 people every year and has caused almost 13 million deaths in the past 4000 years.
2. An earthquake that occurred in A.D. 1201 in the eastern region of the Mediterranean has been categorized as possibly the worst earthquake in earth’s history and it claimed almost one million lives.
3. According to the Japanese mythology, these earthquakes are the doings of a giant catfish known as Namazu.
4. In 2004 the Indian Ocean Earthquake itself provided sufficient energy to power the entirety of businesses and homes within the United States for about 3 days.
5. The earthquakes last on average for about 1 minute.
6. Geological faults are the main instigators or earthquakes; however they can also be caused by nuclear testing, landslides, volcanic activity and also mine tests.
7. The northern hemisphere hosts any more earthquakes that the southern hemisphere.
8. The worst ever avalanche which was a result of an earthquake happened in Peru in 1070. In it a 250 foot high wave of ice, rock and mud fell down from the mountains in Huascaran at an incredible speed of 250 miles per hour. The avalanche carried with it entire villages and killed more than 18000 people.
9. The MMS or the moment magnitude scale has substituted the Richter scale, which was developed in the 1930s, to detect the size of earthquakes in terms of the energy it released.
10.The worst landslide on earth was caused by an earthquake which occurred in 1920. This happened in the Kansu provi*nce or China and the landslide killed almost 200000 people.
11.The highest ever tsunami which was caused by an earthquake happened in Japan in 1771 when a tsunami 278 feet in height struck the Island of Ishigaki.
12.The tectonic plates beneath us shift less than 17 centimeters. However even if the tectonic plates shift about 20 cm it is enough to set off a major earthquake in the region. An example of this is the 1995 earthquake in Kobe which measured a 6.9.
13.Almost 2000 years ago, one Chinese astronomer by the name of Zhang Heng invented the first ever earthquake detector in the world. The machine could detect earthquakes up to 600 kilometers away.
14.Scientists believe that the Animals can detect the small weak tremors before the actual earthquake. Others think that the electrical signals built by the shifting of the rocks are picked up by the Animals.
15.Bodies of water may smell strange before an earthquake due to the release of natural gasses underground. The temperature of water also rises.
2. An earthquake that occurred in A.D. 1201 in the eastern region of the Mediterranean has been categorized as possibly the worst earthquake in earth’s history and it claimed almost one million lives.
3. According to the Japanese mythology, these earthquakes are the doings of a giant catfish known as Namazu.
4. In 2004 the Indian Ocean Earthquake itself provided sufficient energy to power the entirety of businesses and homes within the United States for about 3 days.
5. The earthquakes last on average for about 1 minute.
6. Geological faults are the main instigators or earthquakes; however they can also be caused by nuclear testing, landslides, volcanic activity and also mine tests.
7. The northern hemisphere hosts any more earthquakes that the southern hemisphere.
8. The worst ever avalanche which was a result of an earthquake happened in Peru in 1070. In it a 250 foot high wave of ice, rock and mud fell down from the mountains in Huascaran at an incredible speed of 250 miles per hour. The avalanche carried with it entire villages and killed more than 18000 people.
9. The MMS or the moment magnitude scale has substituted the Richter scale, which was developed in the 1930s, to detect the size of earthquakes in terms of the energy it released.
10.The worst landslide on earth was caused by an earthquake which occurred in 1920. This happened in the Kansu provi*nce or China and the landslide killed almost 200000 people.
11.The highest ever tsunami which was caused by an earthquake happened in Japan in 1771 when a tsunami 278 feet in height struck the Island of Ishigaki.
12.The tectonic plates beneath us shift less than 17 centimeters. However even if the tectonic plates shift about 20 cm it is enough to set off a major earthquake in the region. An example of this is the 1995 earthquake in Kobe which measured a 6.9.
13.Almost 2000 years ago, one Chinese astronomer by the name of Zhang Heng invented the first ever earthquake detector in the world. The machine could detect earthquakes up to 600 kilometers away.
14.Scientists believe that the Animals can detect the small weak tremors before the actual earthquake. Others think that the electrical signals built by the shifting of the rocks are picked up by the Animals.
15.Bodies of water may smell strange before an earthquake due to the release of natural gasses underground. The temperature of water also rises.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Some Simply facts probably you don't know
1. Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
2. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
3. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
4. Banging your head against a wall uses an average of 900 calories an hour.
5. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
6. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
7. "I am ." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
8. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
9. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
10. Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
11. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
12. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
13. Every time you lick a stamp,you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
14. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
15. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
16. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
17. Babies are born without knee caps.They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
18. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
19. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
20. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
22. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30's lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.
23. You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
24. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
25. There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
26. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
27. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
28. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
29. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,dogs only have about ten.
30. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
2. The electric chair was invented by a dentist. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
3. The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
4. Banging your head against a wall uses an average of 900 calories an hour.
5. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
6. The strongest muscle in the body is the TONGUE.
7. "I am ." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
8. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
9. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
10. Feb 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
11. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
12. Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
13. Every time you lick a stamp,you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
14. Cat's urine glows under a black light.
15. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
16. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
17. Babies are born without knee caps.They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.
18. Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
19. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
20. The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
22. One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today is because cotton growers in the 30's lobbied against hemp farmers they saw it as competition.
23. You know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
24. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
25. There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
26. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
27. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
28. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
29. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds,dogs only have about ten.
30. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Some Interesting Facts
A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capo ne's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps; they don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
Dogs only have about 10."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! sel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capo ne's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps; they don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds.
Dogs only have about 10."Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of die! sel that it burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
Increase Your General Knowledge
1. Coca-Cola was originally green.
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
4. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
6. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
7. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
8. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
9. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
10. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
11. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
12. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
13. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts -Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
14. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
15. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front leg sin the air, the person died in battle.
16. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
17. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?Ans. - Honey
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20. A snail can sleep for three years.
21. All polar bears are left handed.
22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
25. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
27.Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
29.The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
31.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
2. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
3. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
4. There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
5. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.
6. Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!
7. You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.
8. It is impossible to lick your elbow.
9. People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
10. It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
11. The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.
12. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
13. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts -Charlemagne Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
14. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
15. If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front leg sin the air, the person died in battle.
16. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.
17. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
18. Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this?Ans. - Honey
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20. A snail can sleep for three years.
21. All polar bears are left handed.
22. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
23. Butterflies taste with their feet.
24. Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
25. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
26. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
27.Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.
28. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
29.The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
30. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
31.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
32. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.
33. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
34. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
35. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
36. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
37. And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow
General info about Human Body
Our heart beats around 100,000 times every day.
Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
We have over 600 muscles.
We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
We are about 70 percent water.
We make one liter of saliva a day.
Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
(From various sources)
Our blood is on a 60,000-mile journey.
Our eyes can distinguish up to one million color surfaces and take in more information than the largest telescope known to man.
Our lungs inhale over two million liters of air every day, without even thinking. They are large enough to cover a tennis court.
Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.
Our sense of touch is more refined than any device ever created.
Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells.
We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day.
When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph.
We have over 600 muscles.
We exercise at least 30 muscles when we smile.
We are about 70 percent water.
We make one liter of saliva a day.
Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand we have nine feet of blood vessels, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
(From various sources)
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