51 amazing facts

1. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why?
   
2. When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.
   
3. The one millionth digit of pi is a one.
   
4. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.
5. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
   
6. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.
   
7. Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
   
8. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!
   
9. Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "Go Hang Yourself."
   
10. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
    
11. The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.
    
12. According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
    
13. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.
    
14. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.
    
15. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
    
16. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
    
17. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.
    
18. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.
    
19. The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.
    
20. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a few weeks.

True or hoax? Body of 'dead alien' found in frozen wastes of Siberia

Two walkers have claimed to have found a dead body of an alien in frozen wastes of Siberia and posted the video on the Internet.

On its side with its mouth slightly agape, the slender, badly-damage body lies half-buried in snow close to Irkutsk, Russia.
The corpse of the badly-damaged creature which resembles ET is 2ft-high.art of the right leg is missing and there are deep holes for eyes and a mouth in a skull-like head.
It follows reports of a UFO hurtling towards Earth in the nearby Irkutsk region of Siberia one month ago.

"We couldn't believe it when we saw it. And what was spooky is that there was no sign of the spaceship. Perhaps that was taken away and the body overlooked," the Daily Mail quoted Igor Molovic, one of the pair that uploaded the video, as saying.
Nearly 700,000 people have now seen the clip within a few days.
Cynics, however, claim the video is a fake using a carefully staged model for the alien's body.
 

It’s FAKE

The tiny “dead alien” is just skin from chicken filled with bread, reports the website 7d.org.ua. Police questioned the men who claimed to have found the “body” and they allegedly confessed to creating it themselves.
The chief editor of the local Kabansk-Info newspaper initially thought that it was the body of an infant in the video and alerted the police.  Officers immediately started the investigation and identified the alleged author.   
They went to his house and asked him about the infant’s body.  The scared man reportedly showed a fake alien corpse.  It was even painted in “alien colors”.  Scolding is the only possible punishment for such a stunt as it cannot be considered a crime, the report says.

Evolution of Logo’s

As we already know that Logo is the identities that are fundamental to building a brand and communicating with the target audience. Probably you have seen most of these logos everywhere, but have you ever wondered about their evolution, their background? Did you know that Apple original logo was Isaac Newton under an apple tree or have you ever wonder where the Mercedes-Benz Brand And The Three-Pointed Star logo came from?


Apple

Audi

Making the most out of Google—“Intelligent Google Search”

The Basic search help article covers all the most common issues, but sometimes you need a little bit more power. This document will highlight the more advanced features of Google Web Search. Have in mind though that even very advanced searchers, such as the members of the search group at Google, use these features less than 5% of the time. Basic simple search is often enough. As always, we use square brackets [ ] to denote queries, so [ to be or not to be ] is an example of a query; [ to be ] or [ not to be ] are two examples of queries.

“For even more effective result check the last link"

• Phrase search ("")
  By putting double quotes around a set of words, you are telling Google to consider the exact words in that exact order without any change. Google already uses the order and the fact that the words are together as a very strong signal and will stray from it only for a good reason, so quotes are usually unnecessary. By insisting on phrase search you might be missing good results accidentally. For example, a search for[ "Alexander Bell" ] (with quotes) will miss the pages that refer to Alexander G. Bell.
  
• Search within a specific website (site:)
  Google allows you to specify that your search results must come from a given website. For example, the query [ iraq site:nytimes.com ]will return pages about Iraq but only from nytimes.com. The simpler queries [ iraq nytimes.com ] or [ iraq New York Times ] will usually be just as good, though they might return results from other sites that mention the New York Times. You can also specify a whole class of sites, for example [ iraq site:.gov ] will return results only from a .gov domain and [ iraq site:.iq ] will return results only from Iraqi sites.
  
• Terms you want to exclude (-)
  Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word to appear in your results. The minus sign should appear immediately before the word and should be preceded with a space. For example,

Celebrating Life Everyday

For most people, life is a repetitive drill. Waking up at the same time, brushing the same way, drinking the same coffee, reading the same newspaper, a time bound bath, a hurried breakfast, road rage on the way to work, same gossip and lunch, same route back home, same arguments, compulsive dinner, same bed, crash out and wake up next day to continue the droning drill.
Life needn’t me mundane. Life needn’t be boring. Life needn’t be a year’s experience repeated ‘n’ number of times. Life needn’t be an imposition. Life needn’t be a life imprisonment. There is more to life than existing.
Pursue a new proficiency every year and see how exciting life can be. Let there not be a phase in our lives when we weren’t enrolled as an active student. It could be music lessons, playing instruments, dance classes, new fitness regimes, yoga, new languages, creative writing, painting, public speaking, gardening, photography etc. The list can never be ending, if we really want them to be.

Let us always be an explorer of life. Let us keep experimenting. Let us keep trying and feed our curiosity and inquisitiveness. Let us keep attempting something that has not been attempted before. Like trying new cuisines, new ‘hair styles’, different clothes, visiting unusual places etc. Use public transport for a day, instead of our usual drive/ride to office. Go on a voice rest the other day. Try out new things at work place. Again the list is endless. Get creative with life. Keep going.
More than all our successes, achievements and accomplishments, the formula to a lively life is to perpetually ask this question.When was the last time I did something for the first time?
Celebrate life. Stamp your presence on every day of your life. Spell life with energy and enthusiasm
~Anonymous

The Triple Filter Test

In ancient Greece, Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?”
Wait a moment,”Socrates replied. “Before you tell me I’d like you to pass a little test..It’s  called the TRIPLE FILTER TEST.
“triple filter ?”
“That’s right, “Socrates continued, “Before you talk to me about my student let’s take a moment to filter what you are going to say. The first filter is TRUTH. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No,” the man said,”actually I just heard about it and..”
“All right,”said Socrates. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second filter, the filter of GOODNESS. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?”
“No, on the contrary..”
“So. “Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you’re not certain it’s true?”
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.
Socrates continued.”You may still pass the test though, because there is the third filter- the filter of USEFULNESS. Is what you are about to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?”
“No not really….”

“Well,” concluded the great philosopher,”if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful! Why tell it to me at all?”
The man was defeated and ashamed.
This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.
Let us not believe in rumours and waste our time gossiping about others.

Home Sweet Home

 

After 28 years of journey the ‘coveted’ World Cup has routed it’s way back to a country where it’s loved the most,back to the place where it’s lord was born and nourished, back to a country where passion for cricket runs higher than anything else, back home, back in INDIA!!

02 April 20!!

WC 2011

As MS Dhoni shooted the ball for a glorious history, fireworks started all over the place, wishes from everyone worked as they should and finally we (Indians) are left with something much more than just a memory…

I read this statement in the crowd while watching the SL vs NZ semifinal

“I was young when back in 1996, so give me a recap of your victory SL”

Well I wasn’t even born when India won the 1983 WC.

The post match moments captured many cricketers with happy tears rolling down their eyes including Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Sachin Tendulkar and who not..

 

What to say for the skipper he hasn’t left a scope of complaints for anyone now..Well Done Dhoni,, you deserve at least a crore for your billion dollar result!!

Cheers Team India!!

BLEED BLUE!!