Eighteen Interesting Facts

1   The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

2   The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee

3    Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die

4   The verb “cleave” is the only English word with two synonyms which Are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.

5   It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

6   Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death

7   The only part of the body that has no blood supply is the cornea in the eye. It takes in oxygen directly from the air

8   The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning its head are the rabbit and the parrot.

9   The owl is the only bird to drop its upper eyelid to wink. All other birds raise their lower eyelids

10    The national fruit of India is the mango. The national bird is the peacock

11 I ndia experiences six seasons: summer, autumn, winter, spring, summer monsoon, and winter monsoon

12   Each year, about 500,000 detectable earthquakes occur in the world

13    There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess

14    There are about 540,000 words in the English language and growing

15    Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump

16   Your thumb is the same length as your nose

17  Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon with his left foot first.

18   The shortest English word that contains the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is "feedback

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Fifteen Greatest Invention

1.       World First Digital Camera (1975): Created by Kodak's engineer Steve Sasson In December 1975, Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented something that would, decades later, revolutionize photography: the world’s first digital camera. It was the size of a toaster, and captured black and white images at a resolution of 100×100 - or 0.01 megapixels in today’s marketing terminology. The images were stored on cassette tape, taking 23 seconds to write. The camera uses an ADC from Motorola, a bog-standard (for the 1970s) lens from a Kodak movie camera, and a CCD chip from Fairchild Semiconductor - the same technology that digital cameras still use today. To playback the images, a special computer and tape reader setup (pictured below) was built, outputting the grainy images on a standard TV. It took a further 23 seconds to read each image from tape

2. World's First Motel (1925): Motel Inn Motel Inn in San Luis Obispo, California, is the world’s first motel. It was built in 1925 by LA architect Arthur Heineman, who coined the term motel meaning "motor hotel." Motel Inn was originally called the Milestone Mo-Tel. Back then, one night stay was $1.25. Heineman couldn’t afford the trademark registration fee, so his competitors were able to use the word "motel." The motel is still in operation today.

3. World's First Album Cover (1938): Smash Song Hits by Rodgers and Hart Before Alex Steinweiss, then a 23-year-old designer, invented album covers in 1938 for Columbia Records, albums were sold in plain brown wrappers. The album "Smash Song Hits by Rodgers and Hart" was the very first album cover in the world.

4. World's First Novel (1007): Tale of Genji More than a thousend years ago, on 1007, a Japanese court lady put the finishing touches on what is considered the world's first novel. Spanning 75 years, more than 350 characters, and brimming with romantic poems, the "Tale of Genji" tells the story of an emperor's son, his quest for love, and the many women he meets along the way. It is attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu

5. World's First Web Server and Web Site (1990): a NeXT computer at CERN Info.cern.ch was the address of the world's first-ever web site and web server, running on a NeXT computer at CERN. The first web page address was http://info. cern.ch/hypertex t/WWW/TheProject .html, made by Tim Berners-Lee.

6. World's First Motorcycle (1885): Daimler's "riding car" The First Motorcycle was designed and built by the German inventors Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart) in 1885. It was essentially a motorised bicycle, although the inventors called their invention the Reitwagen ("riding car"). It was also the first petroleum-powered vehicle.

7. World's First X-Ray (1895): Röntgen's wife hand In 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, professor of physics the University of Wurburg in Germany, was doing experiments with electrical discharges in evacuated glass tubes. Late in 1895 Wilhelm Röntgen was alone at night doing his experiments, this time in the dark and noticed a glow was produced on the wall, which he knew was not caused by fluorescence or visible light. He named these new, unidentified rays 'X' or if you prefer; X-rays. After several months of playing with his discovery he noticed that objects place in the path of the rays cast shadows and created images on the wall. Soon after he used a photographic plate and had his wife, Frau Röntgen, place her hand in the path of the X-rays, creating the world's first X-ray picture. In 1901 Wilhelm Röntgen was awarded the very first Nobel Prize in Physics for this discovery.

8. World's First Computer Mouse (1964): by Douglas Engelbart The world's first computer mouse was made by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, it consisted of two gear-wheels positioned perpendicular to each other -- allowing movement on one axis. Ergonomic shape, great button placement -- and it's made of wood.

9. World's First Skyscraper (1885): Home Insurance Building in Chicago Considered to be the first skyscraper in the world due to the building's unique architecture and unique weight bearing frame, the Home Insurance Building was built in 1885 in Chicago, Illinois and demolished in 1931 to make way for the Field Building (now the LaSalle National Bank Building). It was the first building to use structural steel in its frame, but the majority of its structure was composed of cast and wrought iron. It was the first tall building to be supported, both inside and outside, by a fireproof metal frame. It had 10 stories and rose to a height of 138 feet (42 m) high.

10. World's First Concept Car (1938): Buick Y-Job Designed in 1938 by the famous General Motors designer Harley Earl, the Buick Y-Job is considered by most to be the first concept car. The car had power-operated hidden headlamps, "gunsight" hood ornament, wraparound bumpers, flush door handles, and prefigured styling cues used by Buick until the 1950s.

11. World's First MP3 Player (1998): MPMan 32MB Released in 1998, the Eiger Labs MPMan was the world's first MP3 player, boasting 32MB of internal memory -- expandable to 64MB. Available in F10 or F20 models, the latter boasting SmartMedia compatibility, this player set you back a mere $69 + shipping. It measures a slim 91 x 70 x 16.5 mm

12. World's First Crossword (1913): Arthur Wynne's Invention In 1913, Arthur Wynne had the job of devising the weekly puzzle page for Fun, the eight-page comic section of the New York World, a major newspaper of the time. When he devised what he called a Word-cross for the Christmas edition, published on 21 December, he could have no idea that he would be starting a worldwide craze.

13. World's First Microprocessor (1971): Intel 4004 In November, 1971, a company called Intel publicly introduced the world's first single chip microprocessor, the Intel 4004 (U.S. Patent #3,821,715), invented by Intel engineers Federico Faggin, Ted Hoff, and Stan Mazor. After the invention of integrated circuits revolutionized computer design, the only place to go was down -- in size that is. The Intel 4004 chip took the integrated circuit down one step further by placing all the parts that made a computer think (i.e. central processing unit, memory, input and output controls) on one small chip. Programming intelligence into inanimate objects had now become possible.

14. World's First Magazine (1731): The Gentleman's Magazine The Gentleman's Magazine, first published in 1731, in London, is considered to have been the first magazine. Edward Cave, who edited The Gentleman's Magazine under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term "magazine", on the analogy of a military storehouse of varied materiel, originally derived from the Arabic makazin "storehouses" . It ceased publication in September, 1907.

15. World's First Photograph (1826): "View from the Window at Le Gras" Centuries of advances in chemistry and optics, including the invention of the camera obscura, set the stage for the world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera  obscura  for several hours on his windowsill

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Some Interesting Facts About Technology

Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer.

By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone.

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal rate of 20.

The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer

There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.

While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

20.70% of virus writers work under contract for organized crime syndicates

The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo (1991) attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly.

A virus can not appear on your computer all by iself. You have to get it by sharing infected files or diskettes, or by downloading infected files from the Internet.

Country with the highest percentage of net users is Sweden (75%).

The first popular web browser was called Mosaic and was released in 1993.

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

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Technology Facts

• 160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam. 
• Spam generates 33 billion KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2. 
• 9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam. 
• Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit). 
• A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers. 
• There are some 1 billion computers in use. 
• There are some 2 billion TV sets in use. 
• There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day. 
• The first known cell phone virus, Cabir, appeared in 2004. 
• Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs. 
• Amazon sells more e-books than printed books. 
• Facebook has 500 million registered users, about 100 million less than QQ. 
• About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, 450 million of them speak English. 
• Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet). 
• One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle. 
• Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day. 
• The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year. 
• Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels. 
• The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper. 
• The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Kroloppand weighed 2 pounds. 
• About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related. 
• 24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube. 
• People view 15 billion videos online every month. 
• On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each. 
• Flickr hosts some 3 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 10 billion.

1 Bit = Binary Digit
4 bit = 1 nibble
8 Bits = 1 Byte
1024 Bytes = 1 Kilobyte
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte
1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte
1024 Petabytes = 1 Exabyte
1024 Exabytes = 1 Zettabyte
1024 Zettabytes = 1 Yottabyte
1024 Yottabytes = 1 Brontobyte
1024 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte

Some useful information related with National Income , GDP and Growth of Economy

What is meant by National Income? National income is a money value  of all the final goods  and services produced by a country during one year What consists to calculate National Income  of a country ? It consists collection of  different types of  goods of all sizes and shapes and services of different types How can measure the value of all goods and service  produced in a  country ? Value of Goods and services  produced is measured by Money How can    easily find out the growth of country ? To find out  the growth of  an economy  by checking the  national income figures of  the country for a number of years How to calculate per capita income ? Per capita Income=  National income / Population What is meant by  GDP ? Gross Domestic  Product  is the money  value  of final  goods   and services  produced  in  the domestic  territory of a country  during an accounting year How to calculate  GDP? Per capita GDP= Gross domestic product/Population What are  the basic  economic activities ? Production,  Consumption  and Capital Formation   How to classify  the  producers  in the domestic territory ? 1.      Central Government 2.      Corporate and quasi  corporate enterprises 3.      Households (including unincorporated enterprises and private non profit institutions serving  households) What is  meant by  Public consumption expenditure ? The expenditure of the government for the production of goods and services for collective consumption  is called as  public consumption expenditure When did  the first official  estimates  of the  national  income for the Indian  Union were prepared  in India ? 1948-49 Which organization  is  related with  calculation of  National  Income of  India ? The  Central Statistical  Organization (CSO)  What is meant by  disposable income ? Income of  the nation  from  all  sources  after deduction  of all  current transfers paid. It is equivalent     to  national  income at  market prices adjusted for all  current transfers   What is meant by  Enterprise ? Ultimate unit  in institutional  classification How can simply classify  the production ? Activity which produces commodities or  increases the value of the commodities

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Collection of Unusual English Words - Study Material for Various Departmental Examination

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Word	Meaning of word
Kleptomania	An irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
Misogynist	A misanthrope who dislikes women in particular
Octogenarian	A person who is from 80 to 89 years old
Posthumous	(of a child) born after the father's death
Polygamy	Marriage of a man to more than one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time
Cannibal	A person who eats the flesh of other humans.
Polyandry	The condition or practice of having more than one husband at one time
Bactericide	An agent that destroys bacteria
Androcracy	Male dominated government.
Jejune	Lacking in nutrition, substance.  Also used to declare that something has no value, is immature, or is puerile in content
Netizen	Citizen/ Person who spends a lot of time on the Internet
Lamprophony	Loudness and clarity of voice
Pulveratricious	Covered with dust
Bibliophile	Someone who loves books
Irrefragable	Incontestable, unanswerable
Circumbilivagination	To move in a circle or walk around.
Querimony	A complaint or complaining.
Heptarchy	A state governed by seven persons.
Erstwhile	In the past; at a former time; formerly
Solecism	A nonstandard usage or grammatical construction -  Error in grammar or wording
Nihilarian	One who does useless work
Numinous	Filled with or characterized by a sense of a supernatural presence
Abligurition	Spending of too much money on food
Crapulous	Suffering from excessive eating or drinking
Maledicent	Speaking reproachfully; slanderous
Nelipot	A person who walks without shoes
Tachyphagia	Rapid eating; bolting of food.
Dactylonomy	The practice of counting on the fingers
Autolatry	Self-worship
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