Stressed is Desserts spelled
backwards.

If you had enough water to
fill one million goldfish bowls,
you could fill an entire
stadium.


1. India never invaded any
country in her last 1000 years
of history.

2. India invented the Number
system. Zero was invented by
Aryabhatta.

3. 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 4 th
century BC was one of the
greatest achievements of
ancient India in the field of
education.

4. According to the Forbes
magazine, Sanskrit is the most
suitable language for computer
software.

5. Ayurveda is the earliest
school of medicine known to
humans.

6. Although western media
portray modern images of
India as poverty-stricke n and underdeveloped through
political corruption, India was
once the richest empire on
earth.

7. The art of navigation was
born in the river Sindh 5000
years ago. The very word
"Navigation" is derived from
the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.

8. The value of pi was first
calculated by Budhayana, and
he explained the concept of
what is now known as the
Pythagorean Theorem. British
scholars have last year (1999) officially published that
Budhayan’s works dates to
the 6 th Century which is long
before the European
mathematicians.

9. Algebra, trigonometry and
calculus came from India.
Quadratic equations were by
Sridharacharya in the 11 th
Century; the largest numbers
the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas
Indians used numbers as big as
10 53.

10. According to the
Gemmological Institute of
America, up until 1896, India
was the only source of
diamonds to the world.

11. USA based IEEE has proved
what has been a century-old
suspicion amongst academics
that the pioneer of wireless
communication was Professor
Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.

12. The earliest reservoir and
dam for irrigation was built in
Saurashtra.

13. Chess was invented in
India .

14. Sushruta is the father of
surgery. 2600 years ago he and
health scientists of his time
conducted surgeries like
cesareans, cataract, fractures
and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known
in ancient India .

15. When many cultures in the
world were only nomadic
forest-dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established
Harappan culture in Sindhu
Valley (Indus Valley
Civilization).

16. The place value system, the
decimal system was developed
in India in 100 BC.

Quotes about India
“We owe a lot to the Indians,
who taught us how to count,
without which no worthwhile
scientific discovery could have
been made.” – Albert Einstein.
“India is the cradle of the
human race, the birthplace of
human speech, the mother of
history, the grandmother of
legend and the great
grandmother of tradition.” – Mark Twain.

“If there is one place on the
face of earth where all dreams
of living men have found a
home from the very earliest
days when man began the
dream of existence, it is India.” – French scholar Romain
Rolland
. “India conquered and
dominated China culturally for
20 centuries without ever
having to send a single soldier
across her border.” – Hu Shih (former Chinese
ambassador to USA)

Mary Stuart became Queen of
Scotland when she was only
six days old.

Charlie Brown's father was a
barber.

Flying from London to New
York by Concord, due to the
time zones crossed, you can
arrive 2 hours before you
leave.

Dentists have recommended
that a toothbrush be kept at
least 6 feet (2 m) away from a
toilet to avoid airborne
particles resulting from the
flush.

You burn more calories
sleeping than you do
watching TV.

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

The citrus soda 7-UP was
created in 1929; "7" was
selected because the original
containers were 7 ounces. "UP"
indicated the direction of the
bubbles.

Canadian researchers have
found that Einstein's brain
was 15% wider than normal.

The average person spends
about 2 years on the phone in
a lifetime.

The fist product to have a bar
code was Wrigleys gum.

The largest number of children
born to one woman is
recorded at 69. From
1725-1765, a Russian peasant
woman gave birth to 16 sets
of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets.

Beatrix Potter created the first
of her legendary "Peter
Rabbit" children's stories in
1902.

In ancient Rome, it was
considered a sign of leadership
to be born with a crooked
nose.

The word "nerd" was first
coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran
the Zoo."

A 41-gun salute is the
traditional salute to a royal
birth in Great Britain.

The bagpipe was originally
made from the whole skin of
a dead sheep.

The roar that we hear when
we place a seashell next to our
ear is not the ocean, but rather
the sound of blood surging
through the veins in the ear.
Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the
same effect.

Revolvers cannot be silenced
because of all the noisy gasses
which escape the cylinder gap
at the rear of the barrel.

Liberace Museum has a mirror-
plated Rolls Royce; jewel-
encrusted capes, and the
largest rhinestone in the
world, weighing 59 pounds
and almost a foot in diameter.

A car that shifts manually
gets 2 miles more per gallon of
gas than a car with automatic
shift

. Cats can hear ultrasound.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as
long as both parties are
registered blood donors.

The highest point in
Pennsylvania is lower than
the lowest point in Colorado.

The United States has never
lost a war in which mules
were used.

Children grow faster in the
springtime.

On average, there are 178
sesame seeds on each
McDonalds BigMac bun.

Minus 40 degrees Celsius is
exactly the same as minus 40
degrees Fahrenheit.

Clans of long ago that wanted
to get rid of unwanted people
without killing them used to
burn their houses down --
hence the expression "to get
fired"

Nobody knows who built the
Taj Mahal. The names of the
architects, masons, and
designers that have come
down to us have all proved to
be latter-day inventions, and there is no evidence to
indicate who the real creators
were.

Every human spent about half
an hour as a single cell.

7.5 million toothpicks can be
created from a cord of wood.

The plastic things on the end
of shoelaces are called aglets.

A 41-gun salute is the
traditional salute to a royal
birth in Great Britain.

The earliest recorded case of a
man giving up smoking was
on April 5, 1679, when Johan
Katsu, Sheriff of Turku,
Finland, wrote in his diary "I
quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.

"Goodbye" came from "God
bye" which came from "God
be with you."

February is Black History
Month.

The first drive-in service
station in the United States
was opened by Gulf Oil
Company - on December 1,
1913, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.

The elephant is the only
animal with 4 knees

p. Kansas state law requires
pedestrians crossing the
highways at night to wear
tail lights.

Infants from 2 to 6
months of age prefer
to look longer at
faces rated as
attractive by adults
than at faces rated as unattractive by
adults.

McWhillion and Guykhena are the most viewers of this thread.

Nobleval: McWhillion and Guykhena are the most viewers of this thread.

always loyal....

Although Seun has shown me the link to recover my lost posts here...I've decided to leave them. Afterall there are enough facts to post here. And what could be more entertaining and educative than new facts?
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Nobleval: Although Seun has shown me the link to recover my lost posts here...I've decided to leave them. Afterall there are enough facts to post here. And what could be more entertaining and educative than new facts?
So on that note the new facts will touch different categories e.gAnimals Ceremonies /
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Nigerians takes things like that personal you know.. I don't wanna start a religion war...e-war.

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The world’s largest stockpile
of gold can be found five
stories underground inside the
Federal Reserve Bank of New
York’s vault and it holds 25%
of the world's gold reserve (540,000 gold bars). While it
contains more gold than Fort
Knox, most of it belongs to
foreign governments.

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41 Random Facts about
Cocaine
.
1. Cocaine is an extraction
of the leaves of the
Erythroxylon coca
bush, which is
indigenous to the
Andean highlands of South America. Most of
the cocaine available in
the U.S. is transported
from the country of Colombia.

2. Cocaine comes in two
main forms, powder
and crystalline. The
crystal rock form,
commonly known as
crack or freebase, is cocaine that has not
been neutralized by an acid

3. Approximately 35.9
million Americans aged
12 and older have tried
cocaine at least once in
their lifetime,
according to a national survey, and about 2.1
million Americans are regular users.e

4. Drug enforcement
personnel estimate
that about 2,500
Americans every day
try cocaine for the first time.e

5. After marijuana,
cocaine is the second
most commonly used
illicit drug in the United States.b Cocaine causes three times more deaths than any other illegal drug

6. Cocaine is the most
frequently reported
illicit substance
associated with drug
abuse fatalities and
causes three times more deaths than any other illegal drug.f However, prescription
drug abuse has
recently passed cocaine
abuse as the leading
cause of all drug- related deaths.

7. Cocaine may be
administered by
snorting through the
nose, injecting into the
bloodstream with a
needle, or smoking to produce vapors.
Powder cocaine is
generally snorted or
mixed with water and
injected, while crack
cocaine is most commonly smoked.

8. Of the more than two
million Americans that
currently use cocaine,
just over 700,000 are
users of freebase or crack cocaine.e

9. Cocaine is the most
powerful central
nervous stimulant
found in nature. Its
physical effects include
constricted blood vessels and increased
temperature, heart
rate, and blood flow.
Users of the drug
experience greater
alertness, energy, self- confidence, and even
power after administration.f

10. Cocaine produces its
euphoric effect by
activating the nerve
cells in the brain that
release dopamine, a
chemical associated with pleasure and
mental alertness. The
drug then inhibits
neural transporters
from “mopping up”
the dopamine and storing it for a later
time. The longer the
dopamine stays active,
the longer the sense of euphoria lasts.f

11. Coca leaves, the source
of pure cocaine, have
been chewed and
ingested for thousands
of years for the
euphoric effects of the drug. They were first
used by members of
the Inca civilization in
the Andes mountains,
who believed the coca
plant was a gift from the gods.c

12. Pure cocaine was first
extracted from the
leaves of the coca plant
in 1859 and was
marketed in a fortified wine in France as early as 1863.c

13. Cocaine was first used
in the U.S. in the 1880s,
where it was applied
as an anesthetic in eye,
nose, and throat
operations. This use has since become obsolete
with the development of safer drugs.g

14. In 1884, William
Stewart Halsted, a
famous American
physician, performed
the first surgery using
cocaine as an anesthetic.
Subsequently, Halsted
became the first
cocaine-addicted physician on record. g

15. Cocaine hydrochloride,
the purified chemical
from the leaves of the
coca plant, was the
main active ingredient
in several tonics and elixirs produced for a
variety of illnesses in
the early 1900s. One
product, Tucker’s
Asthma Specific,
contained 420 milligrams of cocaine
per ounce of the medicine.g

16. The soft drink Coca-
Cola originally
contained an estimated
nine milligrams of
cocaine per serving,
which combined with caffeine to create the
drink’s powerful
stimulating effects.
While cocaine was
officially removed
from the drink’s ingredients in 1903, a
cocaine-free version of
the coca leaf is still used
as a flavor additive in the soda.g

Sigmund Freud recommended cocaine as a useful medicine to his patients but suffered from addiction to the powerful drug 17. Psychoanalyst
Sigmund Freud is one
of the more famous
proponents of cocaine.
After trying the drug
for the first time in 1884, he recommended
it as a useful treatment
for depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction.g

18. The famous
nineteenth-century
literary character
Sherlock Holmes was a
frequent user of
cocaine, and he is often described in Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle’s tales as
indulging in cocaine
when no stimulating
cases were present to excite his mind. g

19. Cocaine was first
regulated under federal
law by the Harrison
Act of 1914. The act
banned nonmedical use
of the drug and imposed the same
criminal penalties for
cocaine use and
possession as already in
place for opium,
morphine, and heroine.g

20. After cocaine was
outlawed in 1914, use
of the drug dropped
dramatically until it
rebounded in the 1960s.
By the late 1970s, it was commonly used
by middle and upper-
middle class Americans
and it became known
as the drug of the 1970s and 1980s.d

21. Crack cocaine appeared
in the mid 1980s and
became an instant “hit”
among poor and
young users, due to its
relatively inexpensive street price and quick euphoric effects.

contd
.
22. Common street names
for cocaine include
coke, blow, C,
marching powder, and
nose candy, among
dozens of others that signify cocaine and
cocaine mixtures with
other recreational drugs.
.
23. Cocaine is nearly
always diluted by
dealers in order to
increase the overall
quantity and maximize
profits. Common additives in cocaine
include lactose,
lidocaine, cornstarch,
talcum powder, and sugar
.
24. Because cocaine enters
the bloodstream much
faster when it is
smoked, smoking
crack cocaine can bring
users to a euphoric state twice as fast as
when the drug is
snorted. Since the
onset of the drug is
faster and more
intense, the subsequent “crash” after use is also
more extreme for users of crack cocaine.
.
25. Average street price
for a gram of pure
cocaine in the U.S.
currently is between $
80 and $100. The
average price for a rock of crack cocaine is $10 to $25.
.
26. In 2008, nearly 50,000
kilos of cocaine were
seized in the U.S. during
drug arrests. The
wholesale street value
of this amount of cocaine was
approximately $1.5 billion
.
27. In the year 2007,
nearly 12,000 offenders
in the U.S. were
sentenced to prison
time on cocaine-related
charges. More than 95% of the cocaine cases
sent to federal courts
involved trafficking of the drug
.
28. The highest rates of
cocaine use in the U.S.
are among adults aged
18 to 25, with about
5% of Americans in this
age group admitting current use of the drug.
.
29. Cocaine is extremely
addictive, and frequent
users generally require
more and more hits to
produce the same high.
When the drug is smoked, as in the form
of crack cocaine,
addiction tends to develop more quickly.
.
30. Babies born to mothers
who used cocaine
during the pregnancy tend to be born
prematurely, have low
birth weights, and
suffer from brain
damage. The risk of
spontaneous abortion is also greatly increased
with cocaine use during pregnancy.
.
31. More than 400,000
babies are born
addicted to cocaine each year in the U.S
.
32. Men are more likely to
use cocaine than
women, as the drug is
associated with living
dangerously and
wildly, but the gender gap is beginning to
decrease. According to
2008 statistics, there
are approximately
700,000 new male users
each year in the U.S. and about 500,000 new female users
.
33. Men tend to feel the
effects of cocaine
faster than women
and report more
episodes of euphoria
and dysphoria (intense bad feelings) related to
the drug than women do
.
34. When cocaine is used in
combination with
alcohol, the body
converts the two
substances into
cocaethylene. This toxic combination
causes a greater
duration of drug
effects in the brain and
is the cause of more
deaths than any other drug combination.
.
35. Between 30% and 60%
of users combine
cocaine with alcohol.
This concurrent use is
the cause of nearly 75%
of cocaine-related fatalities in the U.S.,
and a cocaine user is 25
times more likely to
experience sudden
death when combining it with alcohol
.
36. Approximately one
third of the deaths
associated with cocaine
use are caused by the
direct pharmacological
effects of the drug itself. The vast
majority of deaths
related to cocaine are
caused by homicide, suicide, and motor vehicle collisions as a
result of the drug’s
mind-altering properties
.
37. Cocaine overdose is the
most common reason
for drug-related visits
to the emergency
department in the U.S.,
causing 31% of such visits. In 1978, cocaine
accounted for only 1%
of drug-related
emergency room visits.
.
38. Approximately 10% of
people who begin
using cocaine will
immediately progress
to serious, heavy use of the drug
.
39. Cocaine users tend to
have higher rates of
antisocial personality
disorder, depression,
anxiety, and multi-
substance abuse than the general population.
These traits are also
more common among
their immediate-family relatives.
.
40. According to one
study, trace amounts
of cocaine can be found
on four out of every
five dollar bills in
circulation. However, because cocaine is a fine
powder and is easily
spread around,
presence of the drug
does not necessarily
mean the bill was used as a snorting straw
.
41. Worldwide, the use of
cocaine has been
reported in more than
two thirds of all
countries. The U.S. has
the highest incidence of cocaine abuse, with
New Zealand, Mexico , and Colombia
following behind. The
lowest rates of cocaine use are found in Asia.

Iraq once had one of the
highest quality schools and
colleges in the Arab world.
However, after the 1991 Gulf
War and the United Nations
sanctions, today only around 40% of Iraqis can read and
write.