The human female egg is the
largest cell in the human body.
It is the only human cell that
can be seen with the naked
eye.

Hey I think every "nairalander" might like this

100 Amazing
Psychology Facts.
1. Fat – Posting a calorie chart in fast food restaurants leads
people to choose less healthy foods.

2. Fatherhood – Expectant fathers can sometimes
experience a sympathetic
pregnancy where they have
symptoms like back ache,
weight gain, strange food
cravings and nausea. This has also been found to happen in
some species of monkey.

3. Alcohol – As many as 9% of adult Americans have been
to an alcoholics anonymous meeting at some time in their
life (Moos & Timko, 2008). ..

4. Teddy Bear – 1 in 5 women and 1 in 20 men admit to
sleeping with a cuddly toy on
a regular basis (Kanner, 1995).

5. Mental Health – Suicidal thinking or behaviour is the
most common reason for
people to be admitted into a
mental institution (Jacobson,
1999).

6. Warm Weather – Women who live in warmer climates have more body image
concerns than those who live
in colder climates (Sloan, 2002).

7. Rape – The U.S has the highest rate of rape for any
industrialized nation. 4 times
higher than Germany, 12 times
higher than England and 20
times higher than Japan
(Rozee, 2005).

8. Anxiety – People with generally high levels of
anxiety are more likely to
remember pictures of
threatening faces than calmer
people (bradley et al, 1998).

Phobias
9. Trypanophobia – Fear of injection

10. Triskaidekaphobia – Fear of the number 13

11. Soceraphobia – Fear of parents in law

12. Pogonophobia – Fear of beards

13. Phobophobia – Fear of phobias

14. Olfactophobia – Fear of smells

15. Mnemophobia – Fear of memories

16. Laliophobia – Fear of speaking

17. Latrophobia – Fear of doctors or going to the
doctors

18. Geliophobia – Fear of laughter

19. Chronophobia – Fear of time

20. Catoptrophobia – Fear of mirrors

21. Allodoxophobia – Fear of opinions

More Facts!
22. Habits – On average it takes 66 days to form a habit..

23. Day Dreams – On average your mind wanders 30% of
the time.

24. Influence – We think that other people are more easily
influenced than ourselves.

25. Sleep Sex – 1 in 12 people have sex in their sleep.

26. Lying – The most common lie is ‘I’m fine’

27. More Lies! – The average person tells 4 lies a day, 1460 a
year and a total of 87,600 by
the time they’re 60.

28. Happy Sun – People who spend more time in the sun
are likely to be happier and
happy people are more likely
to fall in love because their
happiness is infectious.

29. Eye Contact – If someone makes eye contact with you
for 60% of a conversation
they’re bored, 80% and
they’re attracted to you and
100% of the time then they
are threatening you.

30. Attraction – The pupil of your eye expands up to 45%
when you look at someone
you love.

31. Awkward Silences – It takes 4 seconds for a silence to
become awkward.

32. Swearing – When you’re hurt cursing helps to reduce
pain.

33. Nonsense – We can udnretsnad any msseed up
stnecene as lnog as the lsat
and frsit lteerts of wdros are
in crrcoet palecs

34. Recall – Its easier to remember things with your
eyes closed.

35. Television – Unhappy people watch more TV.

36. Brothers and Sisters – Having siblings is proven to
help socialization with peers.

37. Clothes – What we wear affects how we behave.

38. Crying – When crying from happiness the first tear
will come from the right eye
but if you are crying from
sadness it will come from the
left.

39. Texting – Most people text faster when its someone
they like.

40. Flirting – When flirting the average amount of
glances to ‘send a signal’ is 3.

41. Motivation – Usually thinking of a successful
outcome will reduce our
motivation rather than
increase it.

42. Control – In Milgrams obedience study 63% of
participants kept giving
seemingly lethal electric
shocks because an authority
figure was telling them to.

43. Psychology – The word psychology comes from the
Greek word psyche meaning
‘breath, spirit, soul’ and the
logia meaning ‘study of.’

44. Discipline – Negative reinforcement works better
than punishment as a
disciplinary measure.

45. Smile! – Smiling can make you feel happier.

46. Smart Cats – Cats have almost twice as many neurons
in their brain as dogs.

47. Booze Crime – Alcohol is involved in 90% of cases of
sexual assault on college
campuses.

48. Marriage – Almost half of all married couples 75 and
older still have sex on a
regular basis.

49. Ghosts – Over half of the U.S population believe in
psychic phenomena.

50. Medicine – Placebos can be as good as real treatments.

51. Failure – Freud initially only sold 700 copies of the
interpretation of dreams.

52. Self Fulfilling Prophecy – The Stamford prison
experiment had to be stopped
after 6 days instead of 14
because the participants (and
experimenter) started to
become cruel.

53. Intelligence – Studies have shown that eating food
without preservatives can
improve I.Q by up to 14%.

54. Stress – Excessive stress can alter brain cells, structure
and function.

55. Sexy Smile – Smiling is 69% more attractive than
wearing makeup (Orbit
complete healthy smile
campaign, 2009)

56. Brain – The brain is made up of 75% water.

57. Perfect Memory – Akira Haraguchi recited 100,000
digits of pi in 16 hours.

58. Insomnia – The world record time without sleep is
264 hours.

59. Brain Structure – There are 100 billion neurons in the brain.

60. Pre-Historic Man – Our brain size has fallen 10% in
mass since we were hunter
gatherers.

61.Brain Weight – The human brain weighs
1300-1400g which is
proportionately more for
body size than any other
species

. 62. Short Term Memory – Working memory can hold
7+/- 2 pieces of information.
63. Colour Productivity – People are often more
productive in blue rooms 64.Olfactory Memory – Your sense of smell is the sense
which is best attached to your
memory

. 65.Stress Memory – A small amount of stress helps you to
remember things better but a
large amount hinders your
memory

. 66.Talking – Men say approximately 12,500 words
per day whereas women say
22,000.

67. Primal Urges – The pursuit of food and water is
the most powerful motivator.
(Doddard & Miller, 1950)

68. Strange Cells – Some of the cells in your visual cortex
only respond to horizontal
information and others only
respond to vertical stimuli
(Hubel & Weisel, 1959)

69. Colour Blindness – 9% of men and 0.5% of women are
colour blind.

70. Scientific Discovery – In 1909, a scientist by the name
of Thomas H. Morgan
discovered that chromosomes
contained inherited
information.

71. Women Murder – Female serial killers account for only
8% of all American serial
killers, but American females
account for 76% of all female
serial killers worldwide.

72. Creativity – We are most creative at night and least
creative in the afternoons.

73. Baby Empathy – People are more likely to return a
lost wallet if there is a baby
picture found inside of it.

74. Blue – The colour blue causes the brain to release
relaxing hormones.

75. Emotions – The only innate emotions are joy,
acceptance, fear, surprise,
sadness, disgust, anger, and
anticipation. Other more
complicated emotions like
love and guilt are believed to be combinations of these.
(Plutchik, 1980)

13. Phobophobia – Fear of phobias

lol

76. Point the Finger – People are more likely to blame other
people rather than the
situation when something bad
happens.

77. Personality – There are 5 key aspects to personality:
extraversion, agreeableness,
conscientiousness, neuroticism
and openess.

78. Getting Lucky – Sex is not distributed equally, over
50% of sexual activity in the
US is performed by only 15%
of the population (General
social survey, 1998).

79. Memory Loss – Retro grade amnesia is a condition
where you don’t remember
anything before your trauma.

80. Contradiction – Cognitive dissonance is when
you have two conflicting
beliefs and you adjust one to
fit the other.

81. Reading – People read faster with longer lines but
prefer shorter ones.

82. Imagination – Most people imagine things from
above and at an angle.

83. Optical Illusion – Chromostereopsis is when
two colours are together and
one of them sticks out more
than the other. This affect is
most obvious with the
colours red and blue.

84. Group Behaviour – Larger groups make poorer
and more emotional decisions
than small groups or
individuals.

85. Racial Recognition – Studies reveal that people
recognize and interpret the
emotional facial expressions
of those in their own race
faster than those who are a
different race. (MacDonald & Matthew, 2008)

86. Monotony – Repetition physically changes your brain
as new connections are made
between brain cells.

87. Focus – The human attention span maxes out at
about 10 minutes, over that
and we will tend to revert to
daydreaming.

88. Friends – The maximum number of close relationships/
friendships you can maintain
is between 50 and 150.

89. Girl Talk – ‘Girl talk’ helps women to form closer bonds
but also increases depression
and anxiety

. 90. Tattoos – According the the New York Times 17% of
people regret getting a tattoo.

91. Popular – Anti-social or unpopular teenage girls are
70% more likely to put on
weight than popular, sociable
girls (Lemeshow, 2008)

92. Yawning – A study at John Hopkins University
found that the myth that you
yawn for your brain to get
more oxygen is untrue. It is in
fact to cool your brain down.

93. Mothers Love – Children aged between 6 and 12 are
more likely to wake up
hearing their mother’s voice
calling their name than
hearing the sound of a home
smoke alarm.

94. Money – People earn on average $200 to $600 more per
IQ point but the lower the IQ
the more sensibly people
spend their money (Jay
Zagorsky, 2007).

95. First Time – People who lose their virginity late (older
then 19) have a higher income,
higher education and a more
healthy relationship later in
life than those who lost their
virginity earlier (Harden, 2012).

96. Socialization – Your friends on average have more
friends than you do. If you
think about it this is because if
you are friends with them
they are more likely to be
popular. (Scott, 1991)

97. Pain – Emotional pain is remembered more than
physical pain and has more
effect on your behaviour.

98. Seafood – In the March 2003 edition of Discover
magazine, a report describes
how people in a 7-year study
who ate seafood at least one
time every week had a 30%
lower occurrence of dementia.

99. Hormones – The hormone estrogen which is found in
both men and women, but in
more abundance in women,
causes an improvement in
your memory function.

100. Brain Enlargement – London taxi drivers, who
have to remember every
street in London, have an
enlarged hippocampus
suggesting that this area
grows as you memorize more information. (Maguire et al,
2000)

Still on psychology....

Logizomechanophobia is the
fear of computers ! (aint that
the worst fear ever ? )

You cant read in a dream
because reading and dreaming
are functions of different sides
of the brain, which dont
cooperate while dreams !

Good liars are good at
detecting other people’s lies !

We are more creative in night
and least creative in
afternoon !

Over 90% of humans feel
uncomfortable when TV
volume is not divisible by 2 or
5 !

Your mind can sense someone
staring at you even when
asleep !

Holding Objects infront of
your body indicates shyness
and resistance, separating yourself
from others

! By 2020, depression will be
one of the leading cause of
death and disability

People spend almost half of
their waking hours
daydreaming !

On average women cry
between 30-60 times a year,
while men cry around 6
times !

Lack of sleep leads to sugar
carving ! Most of the serial killers are
born in November !

The Truman Syndrome is a
condition where an individual
honestly believes that his/her
life is a part of a reality
show !

Studies show that men are
put off by a group of loud
women !

Mageirocophobia is the intense
fear of having to cook !

People who spend a lot of
time on internet are more
likely to be depressed,lonely
and mentally unstable !

Inability to
understand sarcasm can be an
early warning sign of a brain
disease !

The time we spend dreaming
helps us overcome
painful experiences !

Watching scary movies has
lasting effects on children and
teens, which may affect them
well into the adulthood !

Studies show that people who
sleep with multiple pillows
are often lonely and
depressed !

Touching a teddy beer makes
people feel less lonely !

Didaskaleinophobia is the fear
of going to school !

Dreams-
Lucid dreaming is a technique
by which you can control
your dreams !

Your body gets paralyzed
while you dream ! An average human being
spends around 6 years of his
life dreaming !

People blind from birth are
not able to see images in their
dreams, but their dreams
involve other senses like
touch,sound,smell and
emotions !

Men tends to dream more
about other men, while
women’s dream roughly
equally about both the
genders !

On average, a person has 4-6
dreams every night !

Your mind never creates new
faces in your dreams, that is
you have seen each person
that appears a stranger to you
in your dreams !

You cant dream and snore at
the same time !

We forget more than 90% of
our dreams !

One in every eight people
dreams in black and white!

Both men and women can
have orgasms while
dreaming !

Negative dreams are more
common than positive
dreams !

Children under 3-4 years of
age can’t see themselves in
their dreams !

Personalities

Leonardo Da Vinci never
signed or dates his most
famous painting – the Mona
Lisa !

George Bush and Sadam
Hussein both had their shoes
hand-mdae by the same
Italian shoemaker !

At his first year of Harrow,
Winstom Churchill was at the
bottom of whole school !

Einstein couldn’t speak
fluently when he was nine.
His parents thought he might
be retarded !

The three best-known
western names in China: Jesus
Christ, Richard Nixon ,
and Elvis Presley ! *repeated*

Bruce Lee could perform one-
hand push-ups using only the
thumb and index finger. Lee
performed 50 reps of one-arm
chin-ups !

Bruce Lee could break wooden
boards 6 inches (15 cm) thick !

Michael Jordan makes more
money from Nike annually
than all of the Nike factory
workers in Malaysia
combined !

Leonardo da Vinci could write
with one hand and draw with
the other at the same time !

The youngest Pope was 11
years old !

Francis Galton, the inventor of
modern fingerprinting
methods, had many other
notable ideas: the weather
map, the phrase “nature vs.
nurture,” and the silent dog whistle !

All US Presidents have worn
glasses. Some just didn’t like
being seen wearing them in
public !

The Nobel Prize resulted form
a late change in the will
of Alfred Nobel, who did not
want to be remembered after
his death as a propagator of
violence – he invented dynamite !

Mozart never went to school !

The national flag of Italy was
designed by Napoleon
Bonaparte !

Albert Einstein was once
offered the Presidency of
Israel. He declined saying he
had no head for problems !

Barbie’s full name is Barbara
Millicent Roberts !

Marilyn Monroe had six toes !

Picasso’s full name was Pablo
Diego Jose Francisco de Paula
Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los
Remedios Cipriano de la
Santisima Trinidad Ruiz
Picasso !

In thanks for narrating a
documentary, the museum of
Natural History named a
spider after Harrison Ford –
Calponia Harrisonfordi !

Adolf Hitler was Time
Magazine‘s Man of the Year
for 1938 !

The first “Teddy Bear” was
made in honour of the then
American President Theodore
Roosevelt (nicknamed Teddy)
after he refuesed to shoot a
bear cub on one of his hunting trips !

The French King, Lois XIV
owned a collection of 413 beds
in several places all over
France, so that he could sleep
on his own bed, no matter
where he travelled !

George Bernad Shaw is the
only person to win both – a
Nobel Prize and an Oscar !

Newton served as a member
of the Parliament of England
for one year. During all the
lengthy proceedings, he spoke
only once : he asked the
person next to him to close an open window !

Artin Elmayan, 95 years old,
from Argentina, is the world’s
oldest professionally ranked
tennis player !

The last words of the Roald
Dahl (author of Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory) were
“Ow,Bleep” !

Barack Obama’s favourite
cartoon character is
Spongebob Squarepants !

Leonardo da Vinci worked on
painting Mona Lisa for 15
years, when he died in the
year 1519, he
still didn’t consider it to be
finished !

General Life Facts

An ‘earworm’ is a song that
gets stuck in your head !

Lemon juice can aid in
reducing the swelling caused
by insect bites !

10% of all the photographs in
the world were taken in last
12 months !

A burning candle creates 1.
million tiny diamonds per
second !

There are enough diamonds in
existence to give every
human on this planet a cupful !

An average person walks the
equivalent of 3 times around
the earth in his lifetime !

Scientists believe that untidy
and unmade beds are healthier
for us than neat and made
beds !

Most people are happiest at
7:26 PM on Saturday night !

40% women would consider
dumping their boyfriends if
her friends didnt like him !

An average woman’s
handbag weighs between 3-5
pounds !

Apples are more efficient at
waking you up in the
morning than tea or coffee !

Pearls dissolve in vinegar !

More germs are transferred
shaking hands than kissing !

The search engine Google got
its name from the word
‘googol’ which refers to the
number one with a hundred
zeroes after it !

If you could drive your car
straight up you would arrive
in space in just over an hour

! Every year lightning kills 1000
people !

The highest speed ever
achieved on a bicycle is 166.94
mph, by Fred Rompelberg !

The small “You Are Here”
sticker that indicates your
position on a map has a name
– it’s called an ideo locator !

A typical hurricane produces
the energy equivalent of 8,000
one megaton bombs !

No word in the English
language rhymes with month,
orange, silver, and purple !

Dogs and cats consume almost
$7 billion worth of pet food a
year

! A man named Charles Osborne
had the hiccups for 69 years !

27% of U.S. male college
students believe life is “A
meaningless existential hell.” !.

An average person laughs
about 15 times a day !

12 newborns will be given to
the wrong parents daily !

The most common name in
the world is Mohammed !

You’re more likely to get
stung by a bee on a windy
day than in any other
weather !

Cashews are actually a fleshy
fruit. The nut that we eat is
the seed that grows on the
outside of the fruit !

Diamonds are actually
unstable at surface
temperature and pressure.
Every diamond above ground
is very, very slowly altering
into graphite, another form of pure carbon !

If you toss a penny 10000
times, it will not be heads 5000
times,but more like 4950. The
heads picture weighs more, so
it ends up on the bottom !

More people have allergies to
Cow’s milk than any other
food product !

More people are killed from
donkeys in a year than
planes !

No piece of normal-size paper
can be folded in half more
than 7 times !

It doesn’t matter how fresh-
picked they are, coffee beans
are actually tasteless until
they’re roasted !

Coca-Cola gets its name from
its 2 key ingredients derived
from the coca leaves and kola
nut.(Its creator changed the
‘K’ in Kola to ‘C’ to make the
name look better) !

The name ‘Adidas’ comes
from the name of its founder
Adolf (Adi) Dassler (Das) !

Istanbul is the only city in the
world that is located on 2
continents !

Men’s shirts have the buttons
on the right,but the women’s
shirts have the buttons on the
left !

The name hamburger has
nothing to do with ham ,but
comes from the German city,
Hamburg !

The blast of air you often feel
while walking into a store is
to prevent insects from flying
in !

Honey is the only natural
product that does
not deteriorate with time !

Fire usually moves faster
uphill than downhill ! The chances of dying by fire
are 15 billion to 1 !

Mother’s Day is the second
most popular day for gift
giving, after Christmas !

Under extreme
conditions, diamonds can be
made from peanut butter !

More facts...btw where is Freecocoa?

Colgate’s first toothpaste
came in a jar !

160 cars can drive side by side
on the Monumental Axis in
Brazil, the world’s widest
road !

The Eiffel Tower contains
18,038 pieces of steel
connected by 2.5 million
rivets !

The Sunday edition of the
New York Times for 14
September 1984 contained
1,612 pages and weighed 5.4
Kg !

1,525,000,000 miles of
telephone wire a strung across
the U.S. !

A company in Taiwan makes
dinnerware out of wheat, so
you can eat your plate !

Windmills always turn
counter-clockwise. Except for
the windmills in Ireland !

A person from Nigeria is a
Nigerian, while a person from
Niger is a Nigerien (we know nah)


The first fax machine was
invented over 25 years before
the telephone !

Coca Cola was originally
green !

40% of McDonald’s profits
come from the sales of Happy
Meals !

A hand clap at the entrance of
Golkanda Fort in Hyderabad,
India can be heard from atop
the fort’s 300 foot summit a
half mile away !

Drivers tend to drive faster
when other cars are around. It
doesn’t matter whether they
are in front, behind or beside
them !

The White House was
originally called the President’s
Palace. Theodore Roosevelt
gave the White House its
current name in 1901 !

The household wrench was
invented by boxing
heavyweight champion Jack
Johnson in 1922 !

Josephine Cochran invented
the first dishwasher and
patented it in 1886 ! More than 100 million people
hold hunting licenses !

It is a criminal offense to drive
around in a dirty car in Russia !

The London Eye in England is
the largest Ferris wheel in
Europe, standing at a height of
135 meters !

The tallest wind turbine in the
world has rotor tips that
reach over 200 meters above
the ground !

The tallest building in the
world is the Burj Khalifa in
Dubai, UAE. It reaches an
incredible 828 metres (2717
feet) in height !

The building of the Panama
Canal, which links the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, was one of
the most difficult engineering
projects ever. It is estimated
that over 25000 workers lost their lives during the long and
dangerous project !

The Hoover Dam, built along
the Colorado River between
1931 and 1936 reaches 726 feet
in height (221 meters) !

High speed passenger trains in
China reach speeds of up to
350 kph (220 mph) !

When traveling at 80
kilometres per hour (50 miles
per hour), cars use around half
of their fuel just to overcome
wind resistance !

There are 722 miles of subway
track in the New York city

! A fully loaded supertanker
travelling at a normal speed
needs about 20 minutes to
stop completely !

‘El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de
Porciuncula’ is the full name of
the American city Los
Angeles !

In Turkestan, in 1919, a train
was powered by almost 9000
tonnes of dry fish !

In Malaysia, its legal to divorce
your partner via text
message !

Nobleval: More facts...btw where is Freecocoa?

Honey I'm here o,I'm just really glad we are here again.

Seriously though, more grease to your engine, you are a gem indeed, we appreciate you(atleast I know I do).

freecocoa: Honey I'm here o,I'm just really glad we are here again.

Seriously though, more grease to your engine, you are a gem indeed, we appreciate you(atleast I know I do).

Thanks dear...

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Anytime.

Interesting History
Facts

The dinosaurs became extinct
before the Rockies or the Alps
were formed !

60-65 million years ago
dolphins and humans shared a
common ancestor !

The grid layout used in many
cities around the world is not
a new invention – it first
appeared in the city of
Mohenjo Daro, in India, 4,500
years ago. The houses to the side of the streets had bare
walls facing the street to keep
out the sun and dust from
carts !

In the First Dynasty of ancient
Egypt, hoards of staff and
family members were walled
up with the body of the dead
king. The humans and animals
buried with the king were expected to help him in the
afterlife !

Francis Galton, the inventor of
modern fingerprinting
methods, had many other
notable ideas: the weather
map, the phrase “nature vs.
nurture,” and the silent dog whistle !

In ancient Rome the
punishment for killing one’s
father was to be drowned in a
sack along with a viper, a dog,
and a rooster !

Gorgias of Epirus (3rd century
BC), a Greek sophist, was born
in his dead mother’s coffin!
Pallbearers heard him crying
out as they carried his
mother’s coffin to the grave ! Now that's scary

Cleopatra had a special lipstick
made for her, consisting of
crushed ants and deep red
carmine beetles !

In the 14th century the Black
Death killed 75,000,000 people.
It was carried by fleas on the
black rat !

When anaesthetic was used
for the first time in childbirth
in 1847, the mother was so
amazed and relieved at how
painless the birth was that she
named her child Anaesthesia !

In 1911, pigtails were banned
in China because they were
seen as a link with its feudal
past !

On August 2, 1922 , the day
that Alexander Graham Bell
was buried the entire US
telephone system was shut
down for 1 minute in tribute !

In 1927 Otto Rohwedder
invented sliced bread. He made
the first machine to slice and
wrap bread and won a patent
for the process. After only six
years from invention, more sliced bread was sold than
unsliced !

Englishman Roger Bacon
invented the magnifying glass
in 1250 !

The first synthetic human
chromosome was constructed
by US scientists in 1997. The
thermometer was invented in
1607 by Galileo !

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866 !

DNA was first discovered in
1869 by Swiss Friedrich
Mieschler !

Wilhelm Rontgen won the
first Nobel Prize for physics
for discovering X-rays in
1895 !

Wireless communications took
a giant leap forward in 1962
with the launch of Telstar, the
first satellite capable of
relaying telephone and
satellite TV signals !

Christian Barnard performed
the first heart transplant in
1967 – the patient lived for 18
days !

The very first bomb dropped
by the Allies on Berlin during
World War II killed the only
elephant in the Berlin Zoo !

In 1956, a psychiatrist had
declared Rock’N’Roll a
communicable desease !

The term geek originally
referred to circus performers
that would bite off the heads
of live chickens !

Weather
Facts

the naming of tropical storms
and hurricanes officially began
in 1953 !

wind doesn’t make a sound
until it blows against an
object !

At any given time, on
average there are about 1800
thunderstorms occurring on
earth with 100
lightning strikes per second !

For each minute of the day, 1
billion tons of rain falls on the
earth !

A molecule of water will stay
in earth’s atmosphere for an
average duration of 10-12
days !

Every second around 100
lightning bolts strike the
Earth !

The fastest speed a falling
raindrop can hit you is 18
mph !

Highest Temperature Recorded
on earth is 134°F (56.7°C) at
Greenland Ranch in Death
Valley, California,on July 10,
1913 !

Lowest Temperature
Recorded on earth -128.5°F
(-89.2°C) at Vostok, Antarctica
on July 21, 1983 ! !

A cubic mile of ordinary fog
contains less than a gallon of
water !

In 1899, it was so cold that the
Mississippi river froze over its
entire length !

The air located around a
lightning bolt is heated to
around 30,000 degree celcius.
This is 5 times hotter than the
surface of sun !

The average width of a
tornado’s funnel averages
about 100 to 200 yards, but it
may be as wide as a mile !

Snowflakes falling at 2-4 mph
can take upto 1 hour to reach
the ground !

The country most affected by
tornadoes is USA which faces
on avreage 1200 tornadoes
every year !

Interesting Google
Facts List :

Google’s headquarters is called Googleplex , which is a combination of Google +
Complex !

It is estimated that Google
processes around 20 petabytes
or 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
of information daily !

Google has the world’s largest
network of translators,
enabling users to translate 345
different languages into each
other !

The “I’m feeling lucky ” button remains one of the
least popular Google
feature.However in trials it
was found that removing it
made the users
uncomfortable !

In 1999, the chew candy called
“Swedish Fish” became the
first company snack to be
ordered into the google
office !

Google bought Youtube in the
year 2006 for 1.65 billion
dollars !

A person working in Google is
called as a “Googler ” !

Google’s first tweet ever was
“I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100
01101001 01101110
01100111 00100000
01101100 01110101
01100011 01101011
01111001 00001010.” which when translaed from binary
code means “I’m feeling
lucky” !

The name “Google” was an
accident. A spelling mistake
made the founders choose
“Google” instead of “Goggle” !

In 2013, Google got most
search requests for Nelson
Mandela, Paul Walker, iPhone
5, Cory Monteith, Harlem
Shake, Boston Marathon,
Royal Baby, Samsung Galaxy S, PlayStation 4 and North
Korea !

Disney
Facts List

Walt Disney’s personal
favourite character was
Goofy !

Walt Disney held the patent
for Technicolor for few years,
making him the only
animator allowed to make
colour films !

Clarence Nash, who gave the
voice to Donald Duck, also
created the dog barks for 101
Dalmations !

Simba is Swahili for ‘lion’,
while Bhalu (Baloo) means
‘bear’ in Hindi !

Want a special gift on your
wedding? if you send Mickey
and Minnie Mouse an
invitation to your wedding
they’ll send you back an
autographed photo and a ‘Just Married’ badge. Or if you send
Cinderella and Prince Charming
an invitation to your big day,
you’ll get an autographed
congratulatory certificate !

Wall-E,the fan-favourite
rubbish compactor was
named after Walter Elias
Disney himself !

In 1938, Walt Disney was
presented with one normal
sized honorary Oscar and
seven little Oscars for Snow
White and the Seven
Dwarves !

The first animated character to
receive a star on the famous
Hollywood Walk of Fame was
Mickey Mouse

Wayne Anthony Allwine,
who was the voice of Mickey
Mouse for 32 years married
Russi Taylor, who played
Minnie, in 1991. The two had a
successful marriage until Allwine’s death in 2009.

A “mega-tsunami” is
a tsunami with
extremely high
waves and is usually
caused by a landslide.
A mega-tsunami occurred at Lituya
Bay, Alaska, in 1958,
creating the tallest
tsunami ever
recorded at 1,700 feet
(534 m) high. Miraculously, only
two people died.

The word
“testis” (testes,
plural) shares the
same root as
“testify” and comes
from the Latin, meaning “witness.”
This is perhaps
because of the
ancient Roman
practice of a man’s
bearing witness or “testifying” by
holding his testis as
he spoke.

Physicians such as
Pliny the Elder (A.D.
23-79), Dioscorides (c.
40-90), and Pseudo-
Galen (129-216)
mention several “superstitious”
abortifacients, such
as crossing over the
root of a cyclamen,
the egg of a crow, a
viper, or a stone bitten by a dog.
Additionally, if a
woman crosses the
menstrual blood of
another woman, she
will have an abortion.

10 FACTS ON MENTAL
HEALTH

Fact 1
Around 20% of the world's
children and adolescents have
mental disorders or problems About half of mental
disorders begin before the age
of 14. Similar types of
disorders are being reported
across cultures.
Neuropsychiatric disorders are among the leading causes of
worldwide disability in young
people. Yet, regions of the
world with the highest
percentage of population
under the age of 19 have the poorest level of mental health
resources. Most low- and
middle-income countries have
only one child psychiatrist for
every 1 to 4 million people

Fact 2
Mental and substance use
disorders are the leading cause
of disability worldwide About 23% of all years lost
because of disability is caused
by mental and substance use
disorders.

Fact 3
About 900 000 people commit
suicide every year 86% of suicides occur in low-
and middle-income countries.
More than half of the people
who kill themselves are aged
between 15 and 44. The
highest suicide rates are found among men in Eastern
European countries. Mental
disorders are one of the most
prominent and treatable
causes of suicide.

Fact 4
War and disasters have a large
impact on mental health and
psychosocial well-being Rates of mental disorder tend
to double after emergencies.

Fact 5
Mental disorders are
important risk factors for
other diseases, as well as
unintentional and intentional
injury Mental disorders increase the
risk of getting ill from other
diseases such as HIV,
cardiovascular disease,
diabetes, and vice-versa.

Fact 6
Stigma and discrimination
against patients and families
prevent people from seeking
mental health care Misunderstanding and stigma
surrounding mental ill health
are widespread. Despite the
existence of effective
treatments for mental
disorders, there is a belief that they are untreatable or that
people with mental disorders
are difficult, not intelligent, or
incapable of making decisions.
This stigma can lead to abuse,
rejection and isolation and exclude people from health
care or support. Within the
health system, people are too
often treated in institutions
which resemble human
warehouses rather than places of healing.

Fact 7
Human rights violations of
people with mental and
psychosocial disability are
routinely reported in most
countries These include physical
restraint, seclusion and denial
of basic needs and privacy.
Few countries have a legal
framework that adequately
protects the rights of people with mental disorders.

Fact 8
Globally, there is huge
inequity in the distribution of
skilled human resources for
mental health Shortages of psychiatrists,
psychiatric nurses,
psychologists and social
workers are among the main
barriers to providing
treatment and care in low- and middle-income countries.
Low-income countries have
0.05 psychiatrists and 0.42
nurses per 100 000 people. The
rate of psychiatrists in high
income countries is 170 times greater and for nurses is 70
times greater

Fact 9
There are 5 key barriers to
increasing mental health
services availability In order to increase the
availability of mental health
services, there are 5 key
barriers that need to be
overcome: the absence of
mental health from the public health agenda and the
implications for funding; the
current organization of
mental health services; lack of
integration within primary
care; inadequate human resources for mental health;
and lack of public mental
health leadership

Fact 10
Financial resources to increase
services are relatively modest Governments, donors and
groups representing mental
health service users and their
families need to work
together to increase mental
health services, especially in low- and middle-income
countries. The financial
resources needed are
relatively modest: US$ 2 per
capita per year in low-income
countries and US$ 3-4 in lower middle-income countries

Interesting Giant
Panda Fact List :

1. A giant panda cub weighs
around 150 grams only while
a fully grown male can weigh
upto 150kg !

2. Pandas are the most
expensive animals to be kept
in zoos or captivity. A panda
costs 5 times more than the
next most expensive animal,
an elephant !

3. A giant panda eats as much as
10kg of bamboo per day !

4. Beneath it’s outer fur, the skin
of a giant panda is white
where the fur is black and
pink where the furn is white !

5. Giant pandas are excellent tree
climbers !

6. Naturall life span of a giant
panda is about 30 years !

7. Giant pandas possess a highly
developed sense of smell that
is used by the males to avoid
each other and to find females
for mating during the spring !

8. A panda’s throat has a special
lining of mucus to protect it
from bamboo splinters !

9. Giant pandas have 6 digits on
their paws, 5 fingers and 1
pseudo-thumb which helps
them holding and eating the
bamboo more easily !

10. Giant pandas have 42 teeth,
and like humans they also
have 2 set of teeths during
their lifetime !