• Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
• The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
• No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
• Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
• You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
• Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
• The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
• The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.
• A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
• Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
• The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
• Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
• All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
• Pearls melt in vinegar.
• Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
• The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
• A duck's quack doesn't echo and no one knows why.
• The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses.
• The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
• Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word criminal." The second was William Jefferson Clinton.
• Turtles can breathe through their backsides.
• Butterflies taste with their feet.
• In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
• On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
• On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
• Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
• It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
• The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
• A snail can sleep for three years.
• No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
• Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!!!
• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
• All polar bears are left-handed.
• In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
• "Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
• If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

You may know some of the following facts. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA.
• India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history.
• India invented the Number System. Aryabhatta invented zero.
• The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
• Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages. Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software reported in Forbes magazine, July 1987.
• Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. Charaka, the father of medicine consolidated Ayurveda 2500 years ago. Today Ayurveda is fast regaining its rightful place in our civilization.
• Although modern images of India often show poverty and lack of development, India was the richest country on earth until the time of British invasion in the early 17th Century.
• The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindh 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
• Bhaskaracharya calculated the time taken by the earth to orbit the sun hundreds of years before the astronomer Smart; Time taken by earth to orbit the sun: (5th century)365.258756484 days.
• Budhayana first calculated the value of pi, and he explained the concept of what is known as the Pythagorean Theorem. He discovered this in the 6th century long before the European mathematicians
• Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India; Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th century ; The largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10 6(10 to the power of 6) whereas Hindus used numbers as big as 1053(10 to the power of 53) with specific names as early as 5000 BCE during the Vedic period. Even today, the largest used number is Tera 1012(10 to the power of 12).
• According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source for diamonds to the world.
• USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion in the world scientific community that the pioneer of Wireless communication was Prof. Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
• The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
• According to Saka King Rudradaman I of 150 CE a beautiful lake called 'Sudarshana' was constructed on the hills of Raivataka during Chandragupta Maurya's time.
• Chess (Shataranja or AshtaPada) was invented in India.
• Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted complicated surgeries like cesareans, cataract, artificial limbs, fractures, urinary stones and even plastic surgery and brain surgery. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India. Over 125 different surgical equipment was used. Deep knowledge of anatomy, physiology, etiology, embryology, digestion, metabolism, genetics and immunity is also found in many texts.
• When many cultures were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley (Indus Valley Civilization).
• The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.

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In 1981 the Pope died, Prince Charles got married and Liverpool were crowned Champions of Europe.

This year (2005) the Pope died, Prince Charles got married and Liverpool were crowned Champions of Europe.

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HOW TO START YOUR DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
Open a new file in your PC.

Name it as "Boss".

Send it to the RECYCLE BIN.

Empty the RECYCLE BIN.

Your PC will ask you, "Are you sure you want to delete Boss permanently?".

Answer calmly, "Yes," and press the mouse button firmly,

Feel better?.

HAVE A NICE DAY.

hav u ever wondered:

• Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
• Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
• Can you cry under water?
• Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?
• If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
• Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
• Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
• Why is "bra" singular and "panties" plural?
• Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"
• Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo?
• Do blind Eskimos heave seeing-eye sled dogs?
• How come wrong numbers are never busy?
• If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
• Before the light bulb was invented, what appeared over peoples heads when they had an idea?
• Why do people point to their wrist when they want to know the time?
• The only cure for insomnia is to get more sleep.
• If ATM stands for Automatic Teller Machine, why do we call it an ATM machine? And if PIN stands for Personal Identification Number, why do we call it a PIN number?
• Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive?

Do u knw:

The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres (800 million pints) of blood.
Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.
On average, people can hold their breath for one minute. The world record is seven-and-a-half minutes.
The human head contains 22 bones.
On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.
On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).
Einstein's brain was of average size (1375 grams - 49oz).
Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialized nations increased by 10 cm (4 in).
In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6". Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7", compared to 1,77 (5'8" for Swedes, and 1,78 (5'8.5" for the Dutch.
The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, suggested that a woman could enlarge her bust line by singing loudly and often.
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
You'll drink about 75,000 litres (20,000 gallons) of water in your lifetime.
After a certain period of growth, hair becomes dormant. That means that it is attached to the hair follicle until replaced by new hair.
Hair on the head grows for between two and six years before being replaced. In the case of baldness, the dormant hair was not replaced with new hair.
Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
In the Middle Ages the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow was called an ell.
A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
The first human sex change took place in 1950 when Danish doctor Christian Hamburger operated on New Yorker George Jargensen, who became Christine Jargensen.

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