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Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:57pm On Jul 04, 2014 |
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. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:23am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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. 1 Like |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:38am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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) 1 Like |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Guykhena(m): 9:45am On Jul 05, 2014 |
13. Phobophobia – Fear of phobiaslol |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:46am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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) |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:51am On Jul 05, 2014 |
Still on psychology.... |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 9:58am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:01am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:19am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:21am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:24am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:29am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:47am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 10:59am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:21am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:26am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:32am On Jul 05, 2014 |
More facts...btw where is Freecocoa? |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:41am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 11:48am On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by freecocoa(f): 1:21pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
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). 1 Like |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 1:26pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
freecocoa: Honey I'm here o,I'm just really glad we are here again.Thanks dear... |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by freecocoa(f): 1:35pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
Nobleval: Thanks dear...Anytime. 1 Like |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 1:38pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 1:42pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 1:48pm On Jul 05, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 12:01am On Jul 06, 2014 |
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 ! |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 12:08am On Jul 06, 2014 |
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. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 12:26am On Jul 06, 2014 |
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. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 12:28am On Jul 06, 2014 |
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. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 12:41am On Jul 06, 2014 |
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. |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 2:03pm On Jul 06, 2014 |
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 |
Re: Thread For Facts.... by Nobody: 2:07pm On Jul 06, 2014 |
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 ! |
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